Waves Breaking
Artist	Claude Monet
Year	1881
Medium	Oil on canvas
Location	Legion of Honor, San Francisco

Waves Breaking is a 1881 canvas by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840–1926).It was painted on the coast of Normandy and follows the example of Gustave Courbet's marine paintings as in having been executed with the painter having faced out toward the sea.^[1] The work is held at Legion of Honor which is part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. It is considered a work of Marine art. ^[2][3]

• List of paintings by Claude Monet