Camille on the Beach at Trouville, 1870
Oil on canvas, 15 x 18 1/4 x 3/4 in. (38.1 x 46.4 x 1.9 cm)
Collection of Mrs. & Mr. John Hay Whitney, B.A. 1926, M.A. (Hon.) 1956
1998.46.1
©2004 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Monet's ability to re-create on canvas an immediate impression of the visible world is masterfully displayed in this painting, executed on the beach in Trouville in the summer of 1870. The work is one of nine oils painted during Monet's honeymoon in the fashionable Normandy resort town with his new wife, Camille Doncieux (1847–1879), who had been featured in a number of Monet's previous Salon paintings, and their three-year old son, Jean. In a clear display of Impressionist brushwork as it was formulated in its earliest and most radical stage during the late 1860s, Monet applied broad strokes of white, tan, and blue, loosely laid on a warm, gray priming, to create form and light.
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