The Beach at Sainte-Adresse is an 1867 oil-on-canvas painting by Claude Monet. Its first exhibition was in 1876 with favorable reactions. It entered Jean-Baptiste Faure's, a French singer and art collector, acquired it for his collection.[1] It is now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago given as part of the Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection by Annie Swan Coburn in 1933.[2][3]
This painting and the Regatta at Sainte-Adresse were painted from near-identical locations during the same visit to Monet's aunt.[2]The Beach focuses on the fishermen with a bourgeois couple in the background and Regatta emphasizes attending the regatta.[3]