Breakwater at Trouville, Low Tide
The story
A quiet view of the Trouville beach, looking past a breakwater toward the open sea as the river meets the tide. Monet painted this during his honeymoon in 1870. The strong diagonals and flat fields of colour borrow from Japanese woodblock prints.
- Artist
- Claude Monet
- Year
- 1870
- Period
- Impressionist
- Where it lives
- Breakwater at Trouville, Low Tide, Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest)
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
