Horses at the Pointe de la Hève
1864
Long before he became the poster boy for Impressionism, a young Claude Monet was busy capturing the rugged Normandy coast in 1864. He paints a dramatic, cloudy sky looming over a pebbly beach where horses pull carts through the shallow surf, making you almost feel the damp sea breeze and hear the clatter of hooves on stones. This early masterpiece reveals Monet's growing obsession with light and atmosphere, setting the stage for the revolutionary art movement he would soon help create.
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