Shop art print and framed art Garden at Sainte-Adresse by Claude Monet

Terrace at Sainte-Adresse is an oil on canvas by Claude Monet painted in 1867. The painting was executed under the reign of Napoleon III during the Second Empire. At the time, many avant-garde painters were refused entry to the Salon. Monet led a group of painters called La Société anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs. Four figures are depicted in a landscape, two standing and two seated in the foreground on bentwood chairs. The two seated figures are Monet's father and Jeanne Lecadre, his aunt, hidden under an umbrella. The composition is punctuated by horizontal lines (the edge of the terrace and the horizon), vertical lines (the two flags, the people near the balustrade) and oblique lines (the orientation of the chairs.) These lines of force give balance, almost symmetry, to the composition as a whole. The framing is wide, and the figures are set in their environment. The view is down on the figures, as if they were being observed from a window. In the third shot, boats are sailing on the water towards Le Havre. The contours of the forms are fairly clear, except for the faces of the figures, which are difficult to make out. Monet chose realistic colours. The foreground is dominated by the bright green of the vegetation. The background is dominated by the dark blue/greyish, muted tones of the sky and [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the classical period. It belongs to the impressionism style.

 

« Garden at Sainte-Adresse » is kept at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

 

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