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Stormy Sea in Étretat
The Stormy Sea in Étretat is an 1883 painting by one of the founders of French Impressionism, Claude Monet. The painting is now preserved at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
The painting depicts a stormy sea on a winter day. The cliff in the background is at Étretat (Seine Maritime); Monet frequently stayed in the area during the winter of 1864-65, and wrote: "I spend my time outdoors on the stone when it's big time [...]
to Courbet's themes, as in "Stormy Sea in Étretat". It was his "Impression, Sunrise" (1872), a view over the waters of the harbour at Le Havre, that had given the movement its name. River scenes were very common among the Impressionists, especially by Monet and Alfred Sisley.
The Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla painted many beach scenes, typically concentrating on a few figures seen close up, in contrast to the smaller figures of most beach paintings. American artists who painted beaches and