Regatta at Sainte-Adresse
Claude Monet, 1867
Sails fill. A crowd on the jetty. Sainte-Adresse turns a Sunday into a race. The sky does half the work.
About this work
Regatta at Sainte-Adresse is an 1867 oil by Claude Monet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Under a bright, windy sky, white-sailed yachts race across the green water at high tide while well-dressed spectators watch from the curving shingle beach. Sainte-Adresse, a prosperous suburb of Le Havre on the Normandy coast, was where Monet's father lived. The painter, then broke, spent the summer of 1867 there with his father and his aunt Sophie Lecadre, leaving his companion Camille Doncieux in Paris with their newborn son, Jean; he went to Paris for the birth and returned to the coast a few days later. On 25 June he wrote that he was working on about twenty pictures, among them "the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails." The painting was probably conceived as a pair with The Beach at Sainte-Adresse in the Art Institute of Chicago. The two are the same size and were painted from points only a few yards apart, one showing a sunny regatta and its holiday crowd, the other an overcast low tide with fishing boats and workers. Monet never showed them side by side. The canvas measures 29 5/8 by 40 inches and came to the Met in 1951 with the bequest of William Church Osborn.
Sources: The Met: Regatta at Sainte-Adresse (51.30.4) · Wikipedia: Regatta at Sainte-Adresse (Monet)
Print facts
- Native resolution
- 3,789 × 2,790 px
- Sharp at 150 ppi up to
- 25 × 18 in
- Sizes
- Small (20 × 15 in) · $100 · 186 ppi
Medium (24 × 18 in) · $150 · 155 ppi
Large (36 × 27 in) · $300 · 103 ppi - Price includes
- Frame and US shipping · 14–21 days · 30-day returns
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Here. Regatta at Sainte-Adresse is available as a framed print in three sizes: Small (20 × 15 in) for $100, Medium (24 × 18 in) for $150 and Large (36 × 27 in) for $300. Prices include the frame and US shipping; delivery takes 14–21 days, with 30-day returns.
What size works best for Regatta at Sainte-Adresse?
The file is 3,789 × 2,790 px. Medium (24 × 18 in) is the largest size that prints at 150 ppi or more (155 ppi), the sharpest choice for close viewing; Large (36 × 27 in) prints at 103 ppi, fine from a few feet away but softer up close.
Is it legal to print Regatta at Sainte-Adresse?
Yes. Regatta at Sainte-Adresse is in the public domain: its copyright, if it ever had one, expired long ago. In the United States a faithful photograph of a public-domain painting does not create a new copyright (Bridgeman v. Corel, 1999), so the image can be printed and sold freely.
