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MONET, Claude: Boats on the Beach at Étretat

🖼 Boats on the Beach at Étretat, 1885
Oil on canvas
66 × 81 cm
Chicago, United States

Soft light bathes wooden boats resting on sandy beach, their weathered hulls rendered in loose brushwork against chalk cliffs. Monet captures fleeting atmospheric effects and coastal labor, establishing Impressionism's focus on light, color, and modern leisure scenes.

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