Low Tide at Pourville, near Dieppe, 1882 (1882): Art, History and Details

Low Tide at Pourville, near Dieppe, 1882 (1882) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This is one of several views Claude Monet painted of Pourville, a fishing village on the north coast of France in Normandy. Pourville featured a boardwalk, a broad beach, and stunning cliffs. According to the artist's correspondence, the village was nothing special, but he was inspired by the landscape: "One could not be any closer to the sea than I am, on the pebbled beach itself and the waves beat at the foot of the house." During the spring of 1882 in Pourville, Monet stayed in a small hotel similar to the dwellings seen at the foot of the cliff to the right in this painting.

Object facts

• Title: Low Tide at Pourville, near Dieppe, 1882
• Date: 1882
• Creator attribution: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on fabric
• Dimensions: Framed: 65.4 x 106.7 x 10.5 cm (25 3/4 x 42 x 4 1/8 in.); Unframed: 59.9 x 81.3 cm (23 9/16 x 32 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1947.196

A detail from the museum

The narrow strokes of black paint along the the edge of the water at the base of the cliff indicate bathers.

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon

Further reading listed by the museum

• Francis, Henry S. "Two Landscapes by Claude Monet." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art XXXV, no. 1 (January,1948): 4-7.
• City Art Museum of St. Louis. Claude Monet, a Loan Exhibition. 1957.
• University of Iowa. Impressionism and Its Roots. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa, Gallery of Art, 1964.

View the collection record

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