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MONET, Claude: The Beach at Étretat

🖼 The Beach at Étretat, 1883
Oil on canvas
66 × 81 cm
Paris, France

Soft morning light bathes towering chalk cliffs rising from a serene beach, their weathered arches reflected in wet sand. Monet captures fleeting atmospheric effects and coastal geology, pioneering Impressionism's focus on light's transformative power over landscape.

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