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AT-00009168Low Tide at Pourville, near Dieppe, 1882
by Claude Monet
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: 82 Claude Monet
Provenance
?1882: Possibly bought from the artist in 1882 by Durand-Ruel, Paris, France (this information from the Wildenstein catalogue raisonné cannot be confirmed by Durand-Ruel as their files on this matter are not conclusive). 1889: Henry White Cannon [1850-1934], New York, NY, 1899. 1947: Mrs. Henry White Cannon [1861-1954] New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1947-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
The Sea. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 23-October 25, 1950). Claude Monet: a loan exhibition. Saint Louis Art Museum (organizer) (September 25-October 22, 1957); Minneapolis Institute of Art (November 1-December 1, 1957). Impressionism and its Roots. University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA (organizer) (November 8-December 6, 1964). Impressionism and its Roots. University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA (organizer) (November 8-December 6, 1964). The Monet Triptych: Water Lilies. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 18, 1979-February 17, 1980). Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). Paris autour de 1882 (Paris around 1882). Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Gifu City, Japan (organizer) (November 3-December 19, 1982); Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan (January 15-February 20, 1983). Monet: The Seine and the Sea, Vetheuil and Normandy, 1878-1883. Gallery of the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland (August 6-October 26, 2003). Boudin, Monet and the Sea Painters of Normandy. The Bowes Museum, County Durham, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (May 29-August 30, 2004). Masterworks from The Phillips Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-May 29, 2005). Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). Monet in Normandy. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (June 17-September 17, 2006); North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (October 8, 2006-January 14, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 18-May 28, 2007). Claude Monet. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (September 20, 2010-January 24, 2011). Monet - Reflections and Shadows. Fondation Beyeler, CH-4125 Riehen/Basel, Switzerland (organizer) (January 22-May 28, 2017). Monet/Boudin. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (June 26-September 30, 2018). Monet and Venice. The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (organizer) (October 10, 2025-February 1, 2026) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/monet-venice; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (March 21-July 26, 2026) https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/monet-venice.
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
- Date
- 1882
- Medium
- 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.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon
- Accession no.
- 1947.196
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