In February 1882, Claude Monet went to Normandy to paint, one of many such expeditions that he made in the 1880s. This was also a retreat from personal and professional pressures. His wife, Camille, had died three years earlier, and Monet had entered into a domestic arrangement with Alice Hosched\u00e9 (whom he would marry in 1892, after her husband's death). France was in the midst of a lengthy economic recession that affected Monet's sales. In addition, the artist was unenthusiastic about the upcoming seventh Impressionist exhibition\u2014divisions within the group had become pronounced by this time\u2014and he delegated the responsibility for his contribution to his dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel.<\/p>\n
Disappointed in the area around the harbor city of Dieppe, which he found too urban, Monet settled in Pourville and remained in this fishing village until mid-April. He became increasingly enamored of his surroundings, writing to Hosched\u00e9 and her children: "How beautiful the countryside is becoming, and what joy it would be for me to show you all its delightful nooks and crannies!" He was able to do so in June, when they joined him in Pourville.The two young women strolling in Cliff Walk at Pourville<\/em> are probably Marthe and Blanche, the eldest Hosched\u00e9 daughters.<\/p>\n In this work, Monet addressed the problem of inserting figures into a landscape without disrupting the unity of its painterly surface. He integrated these elements with one another through texture and color. The grass\u2014composed of short, brisk, curved brushstrokes\u2014appears to quiver in the breeze, and subtly modified versions of the same strokes and hues suggest the women's wind-whipped dresses and shawls and the undulation of the sea. X-radiographs show that Monet reduced the rocky outcropping at the far right to balance the proportions of sea and sky.<\/p>\n","short_description":"In the 1880s, Monet went to paint in Normandy and became increasingly enamored of his surroundings. He wrote to his second wife and her children: \"How beautiful the countryside is becoming, and what joy it would be for me to show you all its delightful nooks and crannies!\" Eventually they joined him in Pourville. The two young women strolling here are probably the eldest daughters.","dimensions":"66.5 \u00d7 82.3 cm (26 1\/8 \u00d7 32 7\/16 in.); Framed: 88.9 \u00d7 104.8 \u00d7 10.8 cm (35 \u00d7 41 1\/4 \u00d7 4 1\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":82,"height":66,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":10,"width":104,"height":88,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Inscribed lower right: Claude Monet 82","credit_line":"Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection","catalogue_display":" Wildenstein, Claude Monet, biographie et catalogue raisonn\u00e9, 1979 758<\/p>","publication_history":"Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell and Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Impressionnistes, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings and Pastels by Members of \u201cLa Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des impressionnistes,\u201d exh. cat. (Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, 1883) p. 11, cat. 32.\n\nGaleries Durand-Ruel, Catalogue de l\u2019exposition des oeuvres de Claude Monet, exh. cat. (Galeries Durand-Ruel, 1883), p. 2, cat. 20.\n\nGeorges Lecomte, L\u2019art impressionniste d\u2019apr\u00e8s la collection priv\u00e9e de M. Durand-Ruel (Chamerot et Renouard, 1892), pp. 246\u201347.\n\nOctave Maus, Exposition des peintres impressionnistes, exh. cat. (Libre Esth\u00e9tique, 1904), p. 40, cat. 109.\n\nTheodore Duret, \u201cClaude Monet und der Impressionismus,\u201d Kunst und K\u00fcnstler (Mar. 1904), p. 245 (ill.).\n\nAndr\u00e9 Mellerio, \u201cCorrespondance de Belgique: Exposition des peintres impressionnistes \u00e0 la \u2018Libre Esth\u00e9tique,\u2019\u201d La chronique des arts et de la curiosit\u00e9 13 (Mar. 26, 1904), p. 104.\n\nDurand-Ruel & Sons and Grafton Galleries, Pictures by Boudin, C\u00e9zanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley Exhibited by Messrs. Durand-Ruel & Sons, of Paris, at the Grafton Galleries, 8 Grafton Street, London, exh. cat. (Strangeways and Sons, 1905), p. 15, cat. 157.\n\nDurand-Ruel and Sons, A Selection from the Pictures by Boudin, C\u00e9zanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley Exhibited by Messrs. Durand-Ruel and Sons, of Paris, at the Grafton Galleries, 8, Grafton Street, London, 1905 (Durand-Ruel and Sons, 1905), p. 23, cat. 157 (ill.).\n\nManchester City Art Gallery, Handbook to the Exhibition of Modern French Paintings, exh. cat. (Taylor, Garnett, Evans, 1907), p. 18, cat. 78.\n\nGaleries Durand-Ruel, Paris, Exposition de paysages par Claude Monet et Renoir, exh. cat. (Galeries Durand-Ruel, 1908), cat. 33.\n\n\u00c9douard Sarradin, \u201cNotes d\u2019art: Paysages de Claude Monet et de Renoir,\u201d Journal des d\u00e9bats politiques et litt\u00e9raires 120, 143 (May 23, 1908), p. 3.\n\nCharles Louis Borgmeyer, \u201cThe Master Impressionists,\u201d Fine Arts 28, 6 (June 1913), p. 328 (ill.).\n\nGalerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, Tableaux par Claude Monet, exh. cat. (Imp. de l\u2019Art, 1914), cat. 30.\n\nArs\u00e8ne Alexandre, Claude Monet (Bernheim-Jeune, 1921), p. 78.\n\nGustave Geffroy, Claude Monet: Sa vie, son temps, son oeuvre (G. Cr\u00e8s, 1922), p. 107.\n\nMadeleine Octave Maus, \u201cExposition des peintres impressionnistes,\u201d in Trente ann\u00e9es de lutte pour l\u2019art, 1884\u20131914 (Librairie l\u2019Oiseau Bleu, 1926), p. 324.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), pp. 19, no. 22; 48, no. 22 (ill.).\n\nDaniel Catton Rich, \u201cThe Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection,\u201d in Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 7.\n\nDaniel Catton Rich, \u201cThe Bequest of Mrs. L. L. Coburn,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 26, 6 (Nov. 1932), pp. 66, 68.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of \u201cA Century of Progress\u201d: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture; Lent from American Collections, ed. Daniel Catton Rich, 3rd ed., exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), p. 43, cat. 295.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of \u201cA Century of Progress\u201d: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1934, ed. Daniel Catton Rich, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1934), p. 37, cat. 214.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, \u201cThe United States Now an Art Publishing Center,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 36, 2 (Feb. 1942), p. 30.\n\nCharles Fabens Kelley, \u201cCliff Walk, by Monet,\u201d Christian Science Monitor (Dec. 18, 1935) (ill.).\n\nOscar Reutersw\u00e4rd, Monet: En konstn\u00e4rshistorik (Bonniers, 1948), p. 284.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1956), p. 34.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, \u201cHomage to Claude Monet,\u201d Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51, 2 (Apr. 1, 1957), p. 24.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, \u201cChronology,\u201d Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51, 2 (Apr. 1 1957), p. 29 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, \u201cCatalogue,\u201d Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51, 2 (Apr. 1, 1957), p. 33.\n\nWilliam C. Seitz, Claude Monet (Abrams, 1960), pp. 30; 116\u201317 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961; reissue, 1968), p. 319.\n\nYvon Taillandier, Monet, trans. A. P. H. Hamilton (Crown, [1963]), p. 59 (ill.).\n\nFrederick A. Sweet, \u201cGreat Chicago Collectors,\u201d Apollo 84, 55 (Sept. 1966), p. 203.\n\nLuigina Rossi Bortolatto, L\u2019opera completa di Claude Monet, 1870\u20131889, Classici dell\u2019arte 63 (Rizzoli, 1972), pp. 16; 49, pl. 33; 103, cat. 230 (ill.).\n\nDenis Rouart, \u201cApparences et reflets,\u201d in Denis Rouart and Jean-Dominique Rey, Monet, nymph\u00e9as, ou Les miroirs du temps, with a cat. rais. by Robert Maillard (Hazan, 1972), p. 26. Translated by David Radzinowicz as \u201cAppearances and Reflections,\u201d in Monet, Water Lilies: The Complete Series, rev. ed., with a cat. rais. by Julie Rouart with Camille Sourisse (Flammarion\/Rizzoli, 2008), p. 25.\n\nM. P., \u201cBeeline,\u201d Chicago Daily News, Aug. 27, 1973, p. 16 (detail).\n\nSusan Wise, \u201cAn Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet,\u201d Midwest Museum Conference of the American Association of Museums: Quarterly 35, 1 (Winter 1974\u201375), p. 9 (ill.).\n\nSusan Wise, ed., Paintings by Monet, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p. 109, cat. 55 (ill.).\n\nGuy Hubbard and Mary J. Rouse, Art: Discovering and Creating (Benefic, 1977), pp. 22 (ill.), 81 (ill.).\n\nJ. Patrice Marandel, \u201cNew Installation of Earlier Paintings,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 73, 1 (Jan.\u2013Feb. 1979), p. 15 (ill.).\n\nBrian Petrie, Claude Monet: The First of the Impressionists (Phaidon, 1979), pp. 58; 61, pl. 50.\n\nDaniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonn\u00e9, vol. 2, Peintures, 1882\u20131886 (Biblioth\u00e8que des Arts, 1979), pp. 78; 79, cat. 758 (ill.).\n\nMus\u00e9e Toulouse-Lautrec and Art Institute of Chicago, Tr\u00e9sors impressionnistes du Mus\u00e9e de Chicago, exh. cat. (Mus\u00e9e Toulouse-Lautrec, 1980), pp. 32, no. 12 (ill.); 67.\n\nWilliam C. Seitz, Monet: 25 Masterworks (Abrams, 1982), pp. 44\u201345 (ill.).\n\nAndrea P. A. Belloli, ed., A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, exh. cat. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984), p. 364.\n\nSylvie Gache-Patin and Scott Schaefer, \u201cImpressionism and the Sea,\u201d in A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, ed. Andrea P. A. Belloli, exh. cat. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984), pp. 272 (detail); 276; 284; 286, no. 117 (ill.); 288; 290. Translated as \u201cLa mer,\u201d in R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, L\u2019impressionnisme et le paysage fran\u00e7ais, exh. cat. (R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, 1985), pp. 295; 306\u201307, no. 117 (ill.).\n\nRobert Rosenblum and H. W. Janson, Nineteenth-Century Art (Abrams, 1984), pp. 400, fig. 321; 401.\n\nMarcel Roethlisberger, \u201cA Panoramic View by Claude Lorrain,\u201d Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 11, 2 (Spring 1985), p. 115, n. 31.\n\nJohn House, Monet: Nature into Art (Yale University Press, 1986), p. 185, pl. 228.\n\nRichard R. Brettell, French Impressionists (Art Institute of Chicago\/Abrams, 1987), pp. 74\u201375 (detail), 76 (ill.), 118.\n\nRobert L. Herbert, Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society (Yale University Press, 1988), pp. 299; 300, fig. 305.\n\nDavid Bomford, Jo Kirby, John Leighton, and Ashok Roy, Art in the Making: Impressionism, exh. cat. (National Gallery, London\/Yale University Press, 1990), p. 109, fig. 52.\n\nRodolphe Rapetti, Monet (Anaya\/Giorgio Mondadori, 1990), p. 62, pl. 40. Translated by Richard Crevier as Monet, Masters\u2019 Gallery (Arch Cape\/Outlet Book, 1990), p. 62, pl. 40.\n\nKarin Sagner-D\u00fcchting, Claude Monet, 1840\u20131926: Ein Fest f\u00fcr die Augen (Benedikt Taschen, 1990), pp. 125, 127 (ill.). Translated by Karen Williams as Claude Monet, 1840\u20131926: A Feast for the Eyes (Taschen, 2004), pp. 125, 127 (ill.).\n\nBernard Denvir, Impressionism: The Painters and the Paintings (Studio Editions, 1991), pp. 134; 136, pl. 123.\n\nMichael Howard, ed., The Impressionists by Themselves: A Selection of Their Paintings, Drawings and Sketches with Extracts from Their Writings (Conran Octopus, 1991), pp. 255 (ill.), 320.\n\nFrank Milner, Monet (Mallard, 1991), pp. 19, 78\u201379 (ill.).\n\nSylvie Patin, Monet: \u201cUn oeil . . . mais, bon Dieu, quel oeil!\u201d (Gallimard\/R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, 1991), p. 81 (ill.). Translated by Anthony Roberts as Monet: The Ultimate Impressionist (Abrams, 1993), p. 81 (ill.).\n\nSophie Fourny-Darg\u00e8re, Monet, Profils de l\u2019art (Ch\u00eane, 1992), pp. 100\u2013101, fig. 2.\n\nScott Reyburn, Monet (Medici Society, 1992), cover (ill.).\n\nVirginia Spate, Claude Monet: Life and Work (Rizzoli, 1992), pp. 154; 156; 158\u201359, ill. 177.\n\nMarianne Alphant, Claude Monet: Une vie dans le paysage (Hazan, 1993), p. 334.\n\nChristoph Heinrich, Claude Monet, 1840\u20131926 (Benedikt Taschen, 1993), pp. 51 (ill.), 95.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Treasures of 19th- and 20th-Century Painting: The Art Institute of Chicago, with an introduction by James N. Wood (Art Institute of Chicago\/Abbeville, 1993), p. 89 (ill.).\n\nRobert L. Herbert, Monet on the Normandy Coast: Tourism and Painting, 1867\u20131886 (Yale University Press, 1994), pp. 45, fig. 49; 46\u201347 (detail); 135.\n\nHenri Lallemand, Monet: Impressions of Light (Todtri, 1994), pp. 85, 101 (ill.).\n\nSteven Z. Levine, Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self (University of Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 30, 33.\n\nDenis Thomas, Monet on Location (Regency House, 1994), p. 49 (ill.).\n\nRichard Thomson, Monet to Matisse: Landscape Painting in France, 1874\u20131914, exh. cat. (National Galleries of Scotland, 1994), p. 164, n. 10.\n\nAndrew Forge, Monet, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago, 1995), pp. 25; 28; 71 (detail); 78, pl. 7; 107.\n\nJohn Russell Taylor, Claude Monet: Impressions of France, From Le Havre to Giverny (Collins & Brown, 1995), p. 91 (ill.).\n\nDaniel Wildenstein, Monet, or The Triumph of Impressionism, cat. rais., vol. 1 (Taschen\/Wildenstein Institute, 1996), pp. 179; 180\u201381 (detail).\n\nDaniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonn\u00e9\/Werkverzeichnis, vol. 2, Nos. 1\u2013968 (Taschen\/Wildenstein Institute, 1996), pp. 282, cat. 758 (ill.); 283\u201384.\n\nAnne-Marie Bergeret-Gourbin, Monet: La Normandie (Herscher, 1997), pp. 48\u201349 (ill.).\n\nCarla Rachman, Monet, Art and Ideas (Phaidon, 1997), pp. 160\u201361, fig. 107.\n\nSusanne Weiss, Claude Monet: Ein distanzierter Blick auf Stadt und Land, Werke 1859\u20131889 (Reimer, 1997), pp. 153; 264, fig. 58.\n\nJames Henry Rubin, Impressionism, Art and Ideas (Phaidon, 1999), pp. 92\u201393, fig. 50 (detail); 128\u201329, fig. 76; 306; 307.\n\nHendrik Ziegler, \u201c\u2018Klein Paris\u2019 in Weimar,\u201d in Aufstieg und Fall der Moderne, ed. Rolf Bothe and Thomas F\u00f6hl, exh. cat. (Hatje Cantz, 1999), pp. 18, fig. 3; 19; 28.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood (Art Institute of Chicago\/Hudson Hills, 2000), p. 74 (ill.).\n\nMaria Teresa Benedetti, Monet: I luoghi (Giunti, 2001), p. 26 (ill.).\n\nNational Gallery of Australia, Monet and Japan, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Australia\/University of Washington Press, 2001), pp. 90, cat. 13 (ill.); 195.\n\nKarin Sagner-D\u00fcchting, \u201cMonet\u2019s Late Work from the Vantage Point of Modernism,\u201d in Monet and Modernism, ed. Karin Sagner-D\u00fcchting, exh. cat. (Prestel, 2001), p. 25.\n\nKarin Sagner-D\u00fcchting, \u201cLes Falaises\u2014Coastal Paintings,\u201d in Monet and Modernism, ed. Karin Sagner-D\u00fcchting, exh. cat. (Prestel, 2001), pp. 47, 50 (ill.).\n\nNorio Shimada and Keiko Sakagami, Kur\u014ddo Mone meigash\u016b: Hikari to kaze no kiseki [Claude Monet: 1881\u20131926], vol. 2 (Nihon Bijutsu Ky\u014diku Sent\u0101, 2001), pp. 14, no. 147 (ill.); 188.\n\nVirginia Spate and David Bromfield, \u201cA New and Strange Beauty: Monet and Japanese Art,\u201d in National Gallery of Australia, Monet and Japan, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Australia\/University of Washington Press, 2001), p. 33 (ill.).\n\nAngus Trumble, \u201cCanberra and Perth, Monet and Japan,\u201d Burlington Magazine 143, 1181 (Aug. 2001), pp. 522; 523, fig. 78.\n\nHendrik Ziegler, Die Kunst der Weimarer Malerschule: Von der Pleinairmalerei zum Impressionismus (B\u00f6hlau, 2001), pp. 182\u201383.\n\nMichael Clarke and Richard Thomson, Monet: The Seine and the Sea, 1878\u20131883, exh. cat. (National Galleries of Scotland, 2003), pp. 136, cat. 65 (ill.); 137.\n\nAnne L. Cowe, \u201cClaude Monet: A Chronology 1878\u20131883,\u201d in Michael Clarke and Richard Thomson, Monet: The Seine and the Sea, 1878\u20131883, exh. cat. (National Galleries of Scotland, 2003), p. 171.\n\nGuy Cogeval et al., \u00c9douard Vuillard, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2003), pp. 440, fig. 1; 441.\n\nDebra N. Mancoff, Monet: Nature into Art (Publications International, 2003), pp. 52\u201354 (ill.).\n\nRichard Thomson, \u201cLooking to Paint: Monet 1878\u20131883,\u201d in Michael Clarke and Richard Thomson, Monet: The Seine and the Sea, 1878\u20131883, exh. cat. (National Galleries of Scotland, 2003), pp. 14\u201315 (detail); 31.\n\nRobert L. Herbert et al., Seurat and the Making of \u201cLa Grande Jatte,\u201d exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago\/University of California Press, 2004), pp. 57; 58\u201359, cat. 96 (ill.); 62; 276.\n\nMadeleine Korn, \u201cExhibitions of Modern French Art and Their Influence on Collectors in Britain, 1870\u20131918: The Davies Sisters in Context,\u201d Journal of the History of Collections 16, 2 (2004), pp. 199; 200, fig. 7.\n\nIsabelle Cahn, L\u2019impressionnisme, ou L\u2019oeil naturel, L\u2019aventure de l\u2019art (Ch\u00eane, 2005), pp. 160\u201361 (detail), 215 (ill.), 222.\n\nFrances Fowle, \u201cMaking Money out of Monet: Marketing Monet in Britain, 1870\u20131905,\u201d in Monet and French Landscape: V\u00e9theuil and Normandy, ed. Frances Fowle (National Galleries of Scotland, 2006), p. 145.\n\nAdrian Lewis, \u201cReading Monet\u2019s Garden at V\u00e9theuil (1881) Radically,\u201d in Frances Fowle, ed., Monet and French Landscape: V\u00e9theuil and Normandy (National Galleries of Scotland, 2006), p. 43, pl. 11.\n\nRobert L. Herbert, \u201cMonet\u2019s Neo-Romantic Seascapes, 1881\u20131886,\u201d in Monet and French Landscape: V\u00e9theuil and Normandy, ed. Frances Fowle (National Galleries of Scotland, 2006), p. 75.\n\nHeather Lemonedes, Lynn Federle Orr, and David Steel, Monet in Normandy, exh. cat. (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco\/North Carolina Museum of Art\/Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006), pp. 89; 104\u201307, cat. 30 (ill.), fig. 52; 158; 184.\n\nAnna Gruetzner Robins, \u201c\u2018Slab of Pink and Lumps of Brown\u2019: The Critical Reaction to the Exhibition of a Monet Grainstack Painting in Britain in 1893,\u201d in Monet and French Landscape: V\u00e9theuil and Normandy, ed. Frances Fowle (National Galleries of Scotland, 2006), p. 161.\n\nNorio Shimada, Claude Monet, Great Masters of Western Art 1 (Shogakukan, 2006), p. 73 (ill.).\n\nNathalia Brodska\u00efa, Impressionism, trans. Rebecca Brimacombe and Richard Swanson (Parkstone, 2007), p. 93 (ill.).\n\nEric M. Zafran, \u201cMonet in America,\u201d in Wildenstein and Co., Claude Monet (1840\u20131926): A Tribute to Daniel Wildenstein and Katia Granoff, exh. cat. (Wildenstein, 2007), p. 127.\n\nCaroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy, \u201cPaul Durand-Ruel and Renoir: 47 Years of Friendship,\u201d in Sounjou Seo et al., Renoir: Promise of Happiness, exh. cat. (Seoul Museum of Art, 2009), pp. 163 (ill.), 165 (ill.).\n\nSusie Hodge, Monet: His Life and Works in 500 Images (Lorenz, 2009), p. 181 (ill.).\n\nGloria Groom and Douglas Druick, with the assistance of Dorota Chudzicka and Jill Shaw, The Age of French Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, rev. and expanded ed. (Art Institute of Chicago\/Yale University Press, 2010; repr. 2013), p. 118, cat. 57 (ill.).\n\nS\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Le Men, Monet (Citadelles & Mazenod, 2010), pp. 226\u201327, ill. 184; 229; 235.\n\nR\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, Claude Monet, 1840\u20131926, exh. cat. (R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux\/Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, 2010), p. 184, cat. 62 (ill.).\n\nRichard Thomson, \u201cLa c\u00f4te normande dans les ann\u00e9es 1880,\u201d in R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, Claude Monet, 1840\u20131926, exh. cat. (R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux\/Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, 2010), p. 176.\n\nHendrik Ziegler, \u201cProduktive Begegnungen: Die Weimarer Malerschule und der franz\u00f6sische Impressionismus,\u201d in Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Hinaus in die Natur!: Barbizon, die Weimarer Malerschule und der Aufbruch zum Impressionismus, ed. Gerda Wendermann, exh. cat. (Kerber, 2010), p. 228.\n\nStephen Shore, \u201cForm and Pressure,\u201d Aperture 205 (Winter 2001), p. 46 (ill.), 47.\n\nClaire Maingon, \u201cLe n\u00e9o-impressionnisme: Reflet ou anti-reflet de l\u2019impressionnisme?,\u201d in R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, Eblouissants reflets: Cent chefs-d\u2019oeuvre impressionnistes (R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux\/Mus\u00e9es de la Ville de Rouen, 2013), pp. 59, fig. 38; 60.\n\n\u201cCat. 19: Cliff Walk at Pourville, 1882\u201d in Monet Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Gloria Groom and Jill Shaw (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014), https:\/\/publications.artic.edu\/monet\/reader\/paintingsanddrawings\/section\/135470<\/a>. \n\nMarco Goldin, ed., Storie dell'Impressionismo: I grandi protagonist da Monet a Renoir da Van Gogh a Gauguin (Linea d\u2019ombre, 2016), 344-45 (detail ill.), 365 (color ill.), 445 cat. 125.\n\nGloria Groom, et. al. Monet and Chicago, exh. Cat. (Chicago: Art Institute, 2020), 65 cat. 29, 133.\n\nHaley S. Pierce, ed., Blanche Hosched\u00e9-Monet in the Light, exh. cat. (Lewes, UK, Giles, 2025), 17, 71 pl. 2, 132.","exhibition_history":"Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Exposition des oeuvres de Claude Monet, Mar. 1\u201325, 1883, cat. 20, as Promenade sur la Falaise. Appartenant \u00e0 M. Hayes.\n\nLondon, Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, Paintings, Drawings and Pastels by Members of \u201cLa Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Impressionnistes,\u201d Apr.\u2013July 1883, cat. 32, as Promenade sur la falaise.\n\nPossibly Weimar, Permanenten Ausstellung f\u00fcr Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, c. June 1\u2013c. Dec. 12, 1890, as Strand von Pourville.\n\nBrussels, Libre Esth\u00e9tique, Exposition des peintres Impressionnistes, Feb. 25\u2013Mar. 29, 1904, cat. 109, as Falaises de Dieppe. Appartient \u00e0 M. Durand-Ruel.\n\nLondon, Grafton Galleries, Pictures by Boudin, C\u00e9zanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley Exhibited by Messrs. Durand-Ruel & Sons, of Paris, at the Grafton Galleries, 8 Grafton Street, London, Jan.\u2013Feb. 1905, cat. 157, as The Walk on the Cliffs. 1882.\n\nManchester City Art Gallery, Exhibition of Modern French Paintings, Winter 1907\u201308, cat. 78, as The Cliffs, Pourville (1882).\n\nParis, Durand-Ruel, Exposition de paysages par Claude Monet et Renoir, May 18\u2013June 6, 1908, cat. 33, as Promenade sur la falaise\u20141882.\n\nParis, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Tableaux par Claude Monet, Mar. 2\u201328, 1914, cat. 30, as Promenade sur la falaise. 1882.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, Apr. 6\u2013Oct. 9, 1932, cat. 22 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, \u201cA Century of Progress\u201d: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23\u2013Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 295.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, \u201cA Century of Progress\u201d: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1\u2013Oct. 31, 1934, cat. 214.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1\u2013June 15, 1957, no cat.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15\u2013May 11, 1975, cat. 55 (ill.).\n\nAlbi, Mus\u00e9e Toulouse-Lautrec, Tr\u00e9sors impressionnistes du Mus\u00e9e de Chicago, June 27\u2013Aug. 31, 1980, cat. 12 (ill.).\n\nLos Angeles County Museum of Art, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28\u2013Sept. 16, 1984, cat. 117 (ill.); Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 23, 1984\u2013Jan. 6, 1985; Paris, Galeries Nationales d\u2019Exposition du Grand Palais, as L\u2019impressionnisme et le paysage fran\u00e7ais, Feb. 4\u2013Apr. 22, 1985.\n\nCanberra, National Gallery of Australia, Monet and Japan, Mar. 9\u2013June 11, 2001, cat. 13 (ill.); Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, July 7\u2013Sept. 16, 2001.\n\nTokyo, Seiji Togo Memorial Yasuda Kasai Museum of Art, loan exchange, Oct. 12, 2001\u2013June 12, 2002.\n\nEdinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Monet: The Seine and the Sea, 1878\u20131883, Aug. 6\u2013Oct. 26, 2003, cat. 65 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Seurat and the Making of \u201cLa Grande Jatte,\u201d June 19\u2013Sept. 19, 2004, cat. 96 (ill.).\n\nFine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Monet in Normandy, June 17\u2013Sept. 17, 2006, cat. 30 (ill.); Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Oct. 15, 2006\u2013Jan. 14, 2007; Cleveland Museum of Art, Feb. 18\u2013May 20, 2007.\n\nParis, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Claude Monet, 1840\u20131926, Sept. 22, 2010\u2013Jan. 24, 2011, cat. 62 (ill.).\n\nTreviso, Museo di Santa Caterina, Storie dell'Impressionismo, October 29, 2016-April 17, 2017, cat. 125.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021, cat. 29.\n\nBloomington, IN, Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Blanche Hosched\u00e9-Monet in the Light, Feb. 14 - June 15, 2025, pl. 2","provenance_text":"Hayes, by Mar. 1, 1883 [per Galeries Durand-Ruel 1883]. Hermann Kapferer, Paris, by July 17, 1888 [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1888 (no. 1687), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file. Wildenstein 1996 does not include Hermann Kapferer in the painting\u2019s provenance and claims that Durand-Ruel purchased the painting from Monet in October 1882; the Durand-Ruel Archives are unable to support this claim]; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, July 17, 1888, for 1,200 francs [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1888 (no. 1687), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file. Wildenstein 1996 does not include this in the provenance]; possibly sold to Annie Swan Coburn (d. 1932), Chicago, by Apr. 26, 1928 [per Art Institute of Chicago 1932. 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