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Artist
Samuel Colman
(American, 1832 - 1920)
The Cliffs at Étretat, Normandy, France
Date1875
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 14 3/4 × 21 × 2 in. (37.5 × 53.3 × 5.1 cm)
Sight: 9 1/4 × 15 1/2 in. (23.5 × 39.4 cm)
Object numberN0021.2024(01)
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Museum Purchase.
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextIn the early 1870s, Samuel Colman embarked on a four-year tour of northern Europe, visiting Holland and the Rhine, England, Brittany, and Normandy. Étretat is a location in Normandy made famous by the French Impressionists, specifically Monet, who painted the cliffside multiple times beginning in 1883. Colman beat Monet to the spot in 1875, where he went on to depict numerous views of the cliffside in oil, watercolor, and graphite, including one scene in which he focused on the fishermen working along the shore.On View
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