Claude MonetFrench, 1840–1926Cliff Walk at Pourville
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Art Institute of Chicago
Room240Chicago, United States
On public display.
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- Aug 16, 2026
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About the painting
The Cliff Walk at Pourville is an 1882 painting by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet, displayed in the Art Institute of Chicago. It is one in a series of landscape paintings by Monet during his time in Normandy. It depicts two girls atop a cliff overlooking the sea in fishing village Pourville, in a scene of summer sunshine and brisk breeze which juxtaposes leisure and labor by contrasting the bourgeois figures with fishing boats on the horizon.
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- Image: Wikimedia Commons — Public domain (PD-Art)
Meanwhile, in the life of Claude Monet
The whole life1880–1881
Durand-Ruel resumes purchases
Durand-Ruel offered to handle the buying and selling of Monet's works on a permanent basis, after which the artist's fortunes rapidly improved.
December 1881 – April 1883 · Residence
Villa Saint-Louis
1883
First major retrospective
In the year of his move to Giverny, Monet's first large retrospective exhibition took place.
December 1883
Riviera trip with Renoir
Monet and Renoir took a short painting trip by train along the Italian Riviera as far as Genoa; on the way back they stopped at L'Estaque to see Cézanne. On this trip Monet discovered Bordighera.
1883–1926 · Workplace
Giverny
18 January – 5 April 1884
Three months in Bordighera
Instead of the planned three weeks, Monet spent almost three months in the Ligurian town of Bordighera and painted 38 pictures. He called the town a magical, fairy-tale land; on the way back he stopped in Menton.
