The Green Wave

La Vague verte

The Green Wave

Claude Monet · 1865

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

About this painting

Monet later misdated this seascape to 1865, but it likely shows the Normandy coast as he saw it in 1866-67; an early critic linked its high horizon and handling of paint to Manet's influence.

Painting Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

48.6 × 64.8 cm (19.1 × 25.5 in)

Painted at

Sainte-Adresse, France

Current location

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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