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Claude Monet<br />
Mar agitado,<br />
Étretat, 1883<br />
Étretat, Rough Sea<br />
Lyon, Musée des<br />
Beaux-Arts<br />
THE SEA<br />
The exhibition ends with a room dedicated to the sea. Like mountains, the<br />
sea was viewed with fear until the 18th century. While some Neo-classical<br />
painters produced outdoor sea studies on the Bay of Naples, it was once<br />
again Constable who was responsible for the first important examples painted<br />
outdoors. The fashion for seaside holidays (shared by Constable) spread<br />
from England to northern France, and from the second quarter of the 19th<br />
century writers and painters began to discover the Normandy coast. This<br />
was also where Courbet executed his first “landscapes of the sea”, which<br />
have a material quality comparable to the rocks of his native region of the<br />
Franche-Comté. Among the Impressionists, Monet was particularly attracted<br />
to the sea; it is not by chance that he spent his youth on the Normandy<br />
coast, where he subsequently undertook six painting campaigns between<br />
1880 and 1883, during which he depicted cliffs, sea and sky in a variety of<br />
brushstroke techniques.
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