Cliffs at Pourville
Claude Monet
1882
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 60 × 100 cm (23 5/8 × 39 3/8 in.) framed: 78.58 × 118.27 × 6.99 cm (30 15/16 × 46 9/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1985.64.27
About the Artist
Claude Monet · 1840–1926
Claude Monet, born Oscar-Claude Monet on November 14, 1840, in Paris and raised in Le Havre, Normandy, began his artistic journey as a successful teenage caricaturist. His formal training started at the Le Havre secondary school of the arts in 1851, where he received his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard. Around 1858, he met Eugène Boudin, who became his pivotal mentor, introducin...