Artwork Replica Clifftop Walk at Pourville, 1882 by Claude Monet (1840-1926, France) | WahooArt.com

Claude Monet (i) - 67 x 82 cm - 1882 - (Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)) (i) - Impressionism (i) The Cliff Walk at Pourville is an 1882 painting by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet. It currently resides at the Art Institute of Chicago. This piece is a landscape portrait and is one of the rare paintings in which Monet includes human beings. The Cliff Walk at Pourville is about the sublime of nature and the natural movement of air and sea. The composition and elements in this piece relates back to Monet’s influences, the artists he admired and learned from. His technique captured the essence of reality happening at a precise moment. The movement of the piece is emphasized through his brushstrokes and colors, giving life to light and air. Monet’s intense study of nature and practice of painting by open-air produced the most dramatic effect for his landscape portraiture. This painting stems from Monet’s stay in Pourville. His wife had passed away a few years ago and he became involved with Alice Hoschede. Due to the ongoing the recession in France, which affected his sales, and the urban cacophony, Monet moved alone to a fishing village in Pourville for a few months. He was enamoured by the beauty of this countryside, which he expressed in his paintings as well as letters. Later, he was joined in by his new family. It’s often assumed that the ladies walking up to the cliff in the painting were the Alice Hoschede’s daughters.