| The Beach at Honfleur | |
| Other Language 1: | French |
| Other Title 1: | Le Bord de la Mer à Honfleur |
| Wikidata: | Q20881340 |
| Artist: | Claude Monet |
| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Height Metric: | 60 |
| Width Metric: | 81 |
| Museum: | Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
| City: | Los Angeles, California |
| Coordinates: | 34.0629°N -118.3578°W |
The Beach at Honfleur is an oil-on-canvas painting by French impressionist Claude Monet. The painting depicts a beach on the Côte de Grâce with sailboats, the hospital of Honfleur, and a lighthouse in the distance. In the foreground, a solitary figure in a blue smock stands on the beach. The painting was created with short, thick brushstrokes, typical of Impressionism.[1]
Monet painted The Beach at Honfleur in the summer of 1864, when he and Frédéric Bazille were staying at nearby Sainte-Adresse, where Monet's parents kept a summer house. Monet painted several scenes of the harbor, jetty, and town of Honfleur during this time period, including A Cart on the Snowy Road at Honfleur.
A painting reminiscent of The Beach at Honfleur is depicted in Studio on Rue Furstenberg (1866) by Bazille.[2] Monet and Bazille shared this studio in Paris from 1864 to 1866.