La Pointe de la Hève at Low Tide

This painting, depicting a beach scene at Sainte-Adresse near Monet’s home town of Le Havre, was one of the two landscapes which Monet exhibited at the 1865 Salon in Paris. A first version, now in the National Gallery, London, was painted at the site in 1864, the present larger version was executed during the first months of 1865 in Monet’s Paris studio.