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1867 · Art Institute of Chicago
The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
painting by Claude Monet, 1867, Art Institute of Chicago
In the picture
- Date
- 1867WikidataArt Institute of Chicago: 1867
- Medium
- Oil on canvasArt Institute of ChicagoWikidata: Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- 75.8 × 102.5 cmArt Institute of ChicagoWikidata: 75.8 × 102.5 cm
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago, ChicagoWikidata
- Gallery
- Gallery 225Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- ImpressionismWikidata
- Genre
- marine artWikidata
- Materials
- oil paint, canvasWikidata
- Inventory no.
- 1933.439Wikidata
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial CollectionArt Institute of Chicago
- Exhibitions
- 2nd impressionist exhibition
- Paris 1863 – 1874: Revolution in der Kunst
Provenance
Where it has been
- February 28, 1873 – 1876Durand-Ruel & Cie.high confidenceWikidata · owned by
- 1876 –Jean-Baptiste Faurehigh confidenceWikidata · owned by
- 1923 –Annie Swan Coburnhigh confidenceWikidata · owned by
- Dates unknownArt Institute of Chicagomedium confidenceWikidata · collection
Exhibition historyArt Institute of Chicago
Possibly London, Durand-Ruel, Eighth Exhibition of the Society of French Artists, spring 1874, cat. 142, as Ste Adresse near Havre.
Paris, 11, rue Le Peletier, 2e exposition de peinture [second Impressionist exhibition], Apr. 1876, cat. 151, as La Plage à Sainte-Adresse. Appartient à M. Faure.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Claude Monet—A. Rodin, June 21–Sept. 21, 1889, cat. 5, as Sainte-Adresse. 1867.
Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, Apr. 6–Oct. 9, 1932, cat. 19 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 292.
City Art Museum of St. Louis, Paintings by French Impressionists (1860–1880), Apr. 17–May 16, 1934, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934, cat. 210.
Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, Nov. 1934, cat. 8 (paintings).
Kansas City, Mo., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, French Impressionist Landscape Painting, Nov. 29–Dec. 30, 1936, cat. 23 (cover ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, June 30–July 31, 1945, no cat.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Claude Monet: 1840–1926, May 10–June 15, 1952, cat. 11 (ill.); Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, June 19–July 17, 1952, cat. 8 (ill.); The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, July 24–Sept. 22, 1952, cat. 9 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1–June 15, 1957, no cat. no.
City Art Museum of St. Louis, Claude Monet: A Loan Exhibition, Sept. 25–Oct. 22, 1957, cat. 4 (ill.); Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Nov. 1–Dec. 1, 1957.
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Painters by the Sea, July 1–30, 1961, no cat.; Santa Barbara (Calif.) Museum of Art, Aug. 8–Sept. 3, 1961.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15–May 11, 1975, cat. 10 (ill.).
Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, Jongkind and the Pre-Impressionists: Painters of the Ecole Saint-Siméon, Oct. 15–Dec. 5, 1976, cat. 90 (ill.); Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Dec. 17, 1976–Feb. 13, 1977.
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Hommage à Claude Monet (1840–1926), Feb. 8–May 5, 1980, cat. 16 bis (ill.).
Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27–Aug. 31, 1980, cat. 9 (ill.).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–Sept. 16, 1984, cat. 6 (ill.); Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 23, 1984–Jan. 6, 1985; Paris, Galeries Nationales d’Exposition du Grand Palais, as L’impressionnisme et le paysage français, Feb. 4–Apr. 22, 1985.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874–1886, Jan. 17–Apr. 6, 1986, cat. 31 (ill.); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Apr. 19–July 6, 1986.
Leningrad [St. Petersburg], Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great Paintings From the XIX century to the Beginning of the XXth century From Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago], March 15-May 19, 1988, cat. 27; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988.
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Impressionnisme: Les origines, 1859–1869, April 19–August 8, 1994, cat. 136; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Origins of Impressionism, September 27, 1994–January 8, 1995.
Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, July 22–Nov. 26, 1995, cat. 12 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Manet and the Sea, Oct. 20, 2003–Jan. 19, 2004, cat. 97 (ill.); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Feb. 15–May 30, 2004; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, June 18–Sept. 26, 2004.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Monet in Normandy, June 17–Sept. 17, 2006, cat. 5 (ill.); Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Oct. 15, 2006–Jan. 14, 2007; Cleveland Museum of Art, Feb. 18–May 20, 2007 (Cleveland only).
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Impressionists by the Sea, July 7–Sept. 30, 2007, cat. 32 (ill.); Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, Oct. 20, 2007–Jan. 13, 2008; Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Feb. 9–May 11, 2008.
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, Sept. 22, 2010–Jan. 24, 2011, cat. 16 (ill.).
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Monet/ Boudin, exh. cat. (Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2018), pp. 65, 130-131, 269, cat. 26 (ill).
Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021, cat. 14.
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Foundation Corbound, A Revolution in Art: Paris 1863-1875, From Salon to Impressionism, Mar. 15–July 28, 2024.
Identifiers & sources+
- Art Institute of Chicago14598
- Wikimedia CommonsClaude Monet - The Beach at Sainte-Adresse - Google Art Project.jpg
- inventory number1933.439
- WikidataQ3966658
- Fame rank#1776 (8 Wikipedia articles)

