La Pointe de la Hève at Low Tide, Claude Monet
This beautiful beach scene near Le Havre, where the artist grew up, was one of two landscapes that launched Monet’s career when exhibited in 1865 at the Paris Salon.
The figures and horses on the beach, all observed from the rear, appear in other works painted by Monet during the 1860s. Presumably he had drawings of such details that he would add as picturesque highlights. Such methods would become anathema to Monet in the later 1860s with the emergence of Impressionism and its challenge to make paintings on site, without after-the-fact studio alterations.
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