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The Art Institute of Chicago — public domain (CC0). Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection Source

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Claude Monet

French, 1840–1926

The Beach at Sainte-Adresse

Date: 1867
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 75.8 × 102.5 cm (29 13/16 × 40 5/16 in.); Framed: 104.1 × 130.2 × 11.4 cm (41 × 51 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)
Inscription: Signed lower right
Department: Impressionist & Modern Art

Estimate £12,000,000 – 18,000,000

Offered in Impressionist & Modern Art — Evening Sale, 3 September 2026

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A Under raking light

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Relief

Derived from this photograph by shape-from-shading, as a reading aid. A measured relief map requires photometric stereo and accompanies the full condition report.

B Catalogue note

Provenance

Private collection, Le Havre
Private collection, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1978

Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1868 (declined)

Literature

Wildenstein, Monet: catalogue raisonné, no. 92

Condition

Lined. An early work in strong state; the beach passages retain their full texture.

This is a summary. A full written condition report, with raking-light and ultraviolet photography, is issued on request and forms part of the description.

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