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Étretat is best known for its chalk cliffs, including three natural arches and a pointed formation called L'Aiguille or the Needle, which rises 70 metres (230 ft) above the sea. [3] The Etretat Chalk Complex, as it is known, consists of a complex stratigraphy of Turonian and Coniacian chalks. [4] Some of the cliffs are as high as 90 metres ...
Cliffs at Étretat (1885) by Claude Monet. Cliffs at Étretat is an oil on canvas painting by Claude Monet, from 1885. It is held in the Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. [1] It is one of a series of about fifty works he produced around Étretat. [2]
It depicts the chalk cliffs of Étretat, a commune along the northern coast of France. The 1996 Catalogue Raisonné of Claude Monet by Daniel Wildenstein references this painting as Fishing Boats Leaving Etretat . Monet first visited Étretat in winter 1868–1869, when he painted his first Stormy Sea at Étretat (Musee d'Orsay). From 1883 to ...
Cliffs at Étretat may refer to: The chalk cliffs at Étretat, a commune in France; Cliffs at Étretat (Massachusetts), a painting by Claude Monet in the Clark Art ...
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In the foreground, a small beach on which there are old boats filled with thatch on the left, and two fishermen with their boats in poor condition that ran aground on the shore. On the left, in the background, the cliff of Étretat can be seen and the rock strata are evoked by horizontal lines of brush. Finally, the upper part of the painting ...
The view from the Etretat Gardens. The Étretat Gardens (French: Les Jardins D'Étretat) is a cliff-top experimental garden with "living sculptures" [1] in Étretat, Normandy, France. It surrounds a villa that once belonged to Madame Thébault, [clarification needed] an actress from Paris, [2] in the beginning of the 20th century.