Why it matters
Monet's relatives relax on a sunny terrace on the Channel coast in the summer of 1867, with flags flying and Honfleur on the horizon. Its flat bands of colour recall Japanese woodblock prints, and Monet called it 'the Chinese painting in which there are flags'.
Did you know?
- The man in the foreground is probably Monet's father, Adolphe.
- Renoir called it 'the Japanese painting'.
- A Hokusai print that may have inspired it is still in Monet's house at Giverny.
- The Met acquired it after a Christie's sale in 1967.
Based on the Wikipedia article Garden at Sainte-Adresse (CC BY-SA 4.0).
