Detail of the Regatta at Sainte-Adresse by Monet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018

Title: Regatta at Sainte-Adresse

Artist: Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny)

Date: 1867

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 29 5/8 x 40 in. (75.2 x 101.6 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Bequest of William Church Osborn, 1951

Accession Number: 51.30.4


Monet spent the summer of 1867 at Sainte-Adresse, a well-to-do suburb of Le Havre on the Normandy coast. On June 25, he reported that he had about twenty pictures under way, noting, "Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails." This sunny regatta, watched at high tide by well-dressed bourgeois, seems to have been conceived as a pair with The Beach at Sainte-Adresse (Art Institute of Chicago), an overcast scene at low tide, showing fishing boats hauled onto the beach, peopled with sailors and workers.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437136