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| Keywords: Claude Monet - La Manneporte près d'Étretat.jpg Artwork Creator Claude Monet en The Manneporte near Étretat en Monet visited Étretat a fishing village and resort along the Normandy coast in 1883 1885 and 1886 His paintings from these trips focus on the dramatic rock formations ”in particular the Manneporte which is the subject of six canvases that mark the beginning of his practice of painting in series <br/><br/>In 1886 the writer Guy de Maupassant published his eyewitness account of Monet at Étretat The artist walked along the beach followed by children carrying five or six canvases representing the same subject at different times of the day and with different effects He took them up and put them aside by turns according to changes in the sky and shadows Monet refined the pictures in his studio 1886 oil canvas cm 81 3 65 4 Metropolitan Museum of Art Gallery 819 object history credit line Bequest of Lillie P Bliss 1931 accession number 31 67 11 http //www metmuseum org/collections/search-the-collections/110001567 The Metropolitan Museum of Art PD-old-auto 1926 DEFAULTSORT Monet; Manneporte Étretat ; 1886 1880s paintings by Claude Monet Paintings by Claude Monet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Étretat by Claude Monet Seascapes by Claude Monet Cliffs in Normandy in art 1886 paintings | ||||
