# Garden at Sainte-Adresse [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MONET, Claude]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 98 x 130 cm ## Commentary Monet landscape experiments in the mid-1860s resulted in some particularly striking works, such as the Garden at Sainte-Adresse which he painted in 1867 near Le Havre. In this work he abandoned the contrasts and somber tones of his early years in favour of a juxtaposition of bright fresh colours \(greens, reds, blues\) in a tiered composition with an unusually high horizon such as he might have found in Japanese prints. The picture is rendered in dazzling colour. Monet's father and aunt are seated in the foreground facing the sea. His cousin is seen standing with a man, possibly her father, in the middle ground. The direction of the sun tells us that it is mid-morning; the gladiolas tell us that it is mid-summer. The raised vantage point of the picture - Monet was painting in a window on the second floor - divides the composition into three horizontal registers that seem to rise parallel to the surface of the canvas rather than recede into space. ## Related artworks - [A Cart on the Snowy Road at Honfleur]() - [A Corner of the Hoschedé Garden at Montgeron]() - [A Field of Poppies]() - [Argenteuil]() - [Beach at Sainte-Adresse]() - [Boats on the Beach at Étretat]() - [Bordighera]() - [Boulevard des Capucines]() - [Boulevard Saint-Denis, Argenteuil, in Winter]() - [Bouquet of Flowers]() - [Bouquet of Sunflowers]() - [Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()