Eugène Isabey (1803-86): 1842, Vue de la ville et du port de Dieppe, 164×251, MBA Nancy (iR6;iR10;iR23;M218) Expos: S1842; EU-1900-C-383, Le port de Dieppe (Musée de Nancy; S.1842)
Claude Monet: 1882, CR776, SDbl, Low tide at Pourville, 65×100, private (iR3;R22,no776) Provenance: Durand-Ruel (1882/10); Kingman (1886); Durand-Ruel (1896); Arnhold (1896). Expos: New York-1886-IP-31; New York-ULC-1891-75; Berlin-KNG-1896. Info: view towards Varengeville.
Pourville introduction: Dieppe lies 83km north/east of Le Havre in the Normandy region (iR9; iR468). Two kilometers to the south-west lies Pourville (iR468; iR9) and another two kilometers south-west lies Varengeville (iR468; iR9). Claude Monet made many pictures here in 1882 (CR707-746 +551-808); he returned for shorter periods in 1896 (CR1421-1434) and 1897 (CR1440-1471). But, many other artists also painted here, namely Albert Lebourg.
On this page you will first find so info on the trips of Monet. Then the various locations will be rendered from Dieppe in the north, then south-west to Pourville, then west-south to Varengeville. Note: additional info and pictures will be added.
Monet his extended trips to Pourville and surroundings: In 1882 Claude Monet spent a long time in Dieppe, Pourville and Varengeville, along the Normandy coast.
Monet started this period with a week in Dieppe (CR706*) and then he stayed two months in Pourville (5km south-west) (CR709). Monet depicted the cliffs and sea towards Dieppe, towards Le Petit Ailly (with the customs officers cottage; CR730) and more south to Varengeville (with the Gorge des Moutiers and the church Saint Valery; CR725). He also depicted the cook / manager of the casino hotel, his wife, their dog and the galettes they made (CR744-746), maybe the same location as where now is ‘Les Régates’ (iR9).
Mid-June he returned to Pourville with his family and stayed at the villa Juliette (R22,CR751). Monet again painted also in the surroundings and did so till early October.
In 1882 Monet painted about 100 works in Dieppe, Pourville and Varengeville: CR706-746 + 751-808 (iR3+iR182). Claude Monet again stayed in Pourville from mid-Februar 1896 until early April. Monet depicted the cliffs and the sea and the surroundings (towards the South-West) like Varengeville, the Mordal cleft, the Gorge du Petit Ailly, the Pointe de l’Ailly (near Vastérival)**. And also the surroundings towards Dieppe (in the North-East). (R22,CR1421)
Monet would return in 1897. He then also depicted the former coastguard house at Petit Ailly (CR1448-1458).
Many of these paintings were exhibited at the Georges Petit gallery in 1898 (R22IV,p1018). Note*: I will often refer to the catalogue raisonné (=CR) of Wildenstein (1996 =R22). Note**: Maybe now the lighthouse Phare d’Ailly (iR9).
Claude Monet: 1882, CR732, SDbr, The fisherman’s house at Varengeville (detail), 60×78, MBB Rotterdam (HW;iR3;R22,no732;M70) Provenance: Durand-Ruel (?1882/06); Petit (1883/08); Claude-Lafontaine (1889). Expo: GP1889-MR-56. Location: the former customs office at Le Petit Ailly.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR788, SDbl, Cliffs near Pourville (detail), 60×81, RMT Enschede (HW;iR3;R22,no788;M79) Provenance: Durand-Ruel (?1882/04); Petit (1883/08); Fitzgerald (1892ca). Expos: Boston-SBC-1892-9; Boston-SBC-1899-8; Boston-CH-1905-11; Boston-MFA-1911-25; Boston-MFA-1919/20. Location: Falaise d’Aval.
Dieppe: Dieppe lies 83km north-east of Le Havre in the Normandy region (iR9). In Dieppe lies Le Pollet, probably a former hamlet (iR9). Claude Monet made a view on Dieppe with the church of Saint-Rémy (R22,CR707; iR3; iR9) and a view on the harbour (R22,CR706; iR3). He also depicted a large cliff at the south-western part of Dieppe (R22,CR759; iR3).
Other artists that painted in Dieppe were: Boudin, Bureau, Delacroix, Gauguin, Guillaumin, Isabey, Lebourg, Lepic , Walter Sickert, Fritz Thaulow and Turner.
Dieppe has the Musée (or Château) du Dieppe (Mx; iR471).
Paul Gauguin: 8IE-1886-43, Vaches au repos =!? 1885, CR191, Cows near Dieppe (Landscape with Cows in an Orchard; detail), 64×80, MBB Rotterdam (HW;iR2;R181,no191;R128,no160;R2,p444;R90I,p242+260;M70)
Paul Gauguin: 8IE-1886-43, Vaches au repos =!? 1885, CR191, Cows near Dieppe (Landscape with Cows in an Orchard), 64×80, MBB Rotterdam (iR2;R181,no191;R128,no160;R2,p444;R90I,p242+260;M70)
Albert Lebourg: 1xxx, Sbl, Une rue au Pollet (le matin), 41×33, ChM Dieppe (iR23;iR1) =?? SNBA-1894-702, Chemin de village: soleil du matin
Albert Lebourg: 5IE-1880-87, Paysage, Normandie =??? 1xxx, Sbr, View on Dieppe, 36×65, CM Dieppe (iR23;iR10;iR6;R2,p312)
P. Bureau (?): 18xx, Landscape at dusk (Ruins by the sea at Dieppe), 33×23, A2024/06/26 (iR42;iR10) Unclearly signed at the back with a deviant signature
Albert Lebourg: 1xxx, Sbr, Le Port (Bassin) de Dieppe et le Pollet, 36×65, A2012-01-26 (iR15;iR78;iR11;iR10;iR261) =!? =DR1907/03/02-33, Le Port de Dieppe. (Viau sale) =Dresden-1914-2162
Albert Lebourg: 1879, Sbl, L’ancien casino de Dieppe, 37×70, A2016/06/22 (iR10;iR11;R2,p268) =?? 4IE-1879-126, Marine
Albert Lebourg: 1880-82ca, Le port de Dieppe, 35×65, A2016/02/05 (iR11;R2,p268) Compare: 4IE-1879-127, Marine
Turner, 1826, The Harbor of Dieppe, 174×225, Frick NY
Ludovic Lepic (1839-89): 18??, Sbr, Retour de pêche à Dieppe, 130×89, A2007/12/07 (iR13;R2,p162) One of several options: 2IE-1876-120, Bateau à sec.
Albert Lebourg: 1881, SDbl, Dieppe vapeur amarrée, 33×41, Gallery Paris (iR333;aR1;iR1) =? SdAF-1883-1441, Le matin, Dieppe
Paul Gauguin: 8IE-1886-59, Falaises =? 1885ca, CR181, Cliff near Dieppe, on wood, 19×24, private (iR2;iR11;R181,no181;R90I,p432)
Armand Guillaumin, 7IE-1882-43, Marine, étude =!? 1882ca, Falaise aux environs de Dieppe, 54×65, A1985/06/26 (iR13;iR14;R90II,p204;R2,p395)
Paul Gauguin: 8IE-1886-53, Les baigneuses =1885, CR178, SDbl, (Bathing) Beach Dieppe, 72×72, NCG Copenhagen (iR2;iR11;R181,no178;R128,no166;R90I,p428+442;M90)
Delacroix (1798-1863): 1852, The sea from the heights of Dieppe, on wood, 35×51, Louvre (iR2;iR6)
View from Dieppe towards Pourville: The following pictures are (probably) made in Dieppe with the view towards the south-west, towards Pourville and Varengeville. Claude Monet depicted this in CR709. Pierre Bureau also did so, painted from the beach.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR708, SDbr, Falaise près de Dieppe, 59×79, private (iR51;iR142;R22,no708;R2,p395) Provenance: Durand-Ruel (1882/10 or 1884/06); Knoedler (1931ca). Expos: =?? 7IE-1882-60, Marine. Info: view towards Varengeville and the Pointe de l’Ailly.
Between Pourville and Dieppe: The following pictures are made between Pourville and Dieppe. The view is (mostly) more towards the sea, often with Dieppe in the distance. Often made from the Côte aux Hérons, with the Val Saint-Nicolas (iR9; R22,CR754). Claude Monet made the following pictures here: CR754-758 +1430-1434 +1459-1471.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR758, SDbr, Walk on the cliff at Pourville, 65×81, Chicago AI (M20;iR6;iR8;iR10;R22,no758) Provenance: 1882/10 Durand-Ruel. Expos: London-SdI-1883-32; DR1883-solo-20; 11LE-1904-109; London-GG-1905-157; Manchester-1907/08-78; DR1914/03-30. Location: Côte aux Hérons near Dieppe. Info: with Alice Hoschedé and her daughter.
Claude Monet: 1897, CR1465, SDbr, Au Val Saint-Nicolas près Dieppe, morning, 65×100, private (iR3;iR6;R22,no1465) Provenance: Durand-Ruel (1900/01). Expos: GP1898-22 or 23. Location: part of Côte aux Hérons.
Pourville: Pourville lies about 81km north/east of Le Havre (iR9). Pourville-sur-Mer is a small sea village and part of Hautot-sur-Mer (iR4).
Artists that painted here were: Monet, Renoir, Victor Vignon and Whistler (iR6).
See page with many pictures Monet made here (iR6).
Just north of Pourville lies the little coastel river La Scie, which Monet depicted (R22,CR765 +766; iR3). This river flows into the English Channel near Plage d’Hautot sur Mer (iR9).
View from Pourville towards Dieppe: The following pictures are (probably) made in Pourville with the view towards the north-east, towards Dieppe.
Some are made from the top or the foot of the Falaise d’Amont (upstream cliff) in Pourville.
Between Pourville and Dieppe lies the Côte aux Hérons (iR9). Claude Monet depicted this view in CR717-719.
Probably Victor Vignon also depicted this view.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR717, SDbl, Pourville près Dieppe, 60×81, A1992/11/13 (iR6;iR94;iR10;iR7;R22,no717) Provenance: 1892 Boussoud, Valadon & Cie; 1892 Viau; sale DR1907/03/04-40; Durand-Ruel?; Expos: Brussels-PdC-1907; Zurich-Kh-FI-1908-17; Liège-1909-228; DRNY1915/12-6. Info: with the Falaise d’Amont; view probably to the north.
Victor Vignon, 18xx, Sbl, Les Falaises de Pourville, 54×65, A2011/08/15 (iR11;iR13) =!? GP1903/05/18-70, Sbl, La falaise, 54×65, former Arsène Alexandre collection (R272,p30;aR12=iR40;R232); =? BJ1894-10, 1887 + BJ1894-25, 1892, Falaises de Pourville. (aR9=iR19)
Victor Vignon, 18xx, Sbr, Falaises à Pourville (Voiliers près de la côte), 65×81, A2020 (iR64;iR13) =? BJ1894-10, 1887 + BJ1894-25, 1892, Falaises de Pourville (aR9=iR19); compare: HD1910/11/22-52, 1887, Pourville, 38×46, (former Bernier collection) (aR7=iR261)
View from Pourville towards Varengeville: The following pictures are made in Pourville with the view towards the west-south, towards Varengeville.
Several of these views are made from the top or the foot of the Falaise d’Amont (the upper or upstream cliff) in the north-east of Pourville.
In sequence the following locations are depicted: the Falaise d’Aval (the lower or downstream cliff), the Mordal cleft (iR9), the Petit Ailly (gorge and beach) (iR9), Claude Monet depicted this view in CR709-713 +751-753 +767-770 +776-786 +791 +1421-1426 +1440-1444.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR753, SDbr, Path in the wheat fields at Pourville, 58×78, private (iR3;R22,no753) Provenance: Durand-Ruel (1883/01); Fuller (? 1886); Durand-Ruel (? 1897); Fuller (?1898); Pierson Beebe (1905ca). Expos: =? New York-1886-IP-158; =? New York-ULC-1891-52; Boston-CH-1905-MR-36; Boston-MFA-1911-32. Location: near the Plateau d’Amont.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR751, SDbl, Edge of the cliffs at Pourville, 61×100, private (iR6;iR10;iR7;R22,no751) Provenance: 1882/10 Durand-Ruel; 1883 Clapisson; 1891 Durand-Ruel. Expos: DR1883-10; London-D&D-SdI-1883-1; =? GP1889-58; DR1899/04-20; London-GG-1905-141; DR1908-p-36. Info: from the Falaise d’Amont facing south.
Claude Monet: 1882, SDbr, CR752, Bords de falaise à Pourville, 60×81, MB Postdam (formerly Metropolitan) (iR10;iR94;R22,no752;M23;M268) Provenance: 1883/12? Durand-Ruel; 1886-1903 W.H. Fuller. Expos: =3XX-1886-9; =New York-NAD-1886-295; New York-ULC-1891-54; New York-LC-1899-20. Location: from the Falaise d’Amont facing towards Varengeville.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR768, SDbl, Fishing nets at Pourville, 60×81, Km The Hague (iR3;iR8;R22;M71) Provenance: Durand-ruel (?1883/07); Aubry (1889ca); sale GP1897/05/10-22; BVc; Rosenberg (1899); Jules Strauss (1902-1932). Expos: GP1889-MR-57; 11LE-1904-PI-99; =? BJ1921-9. Info: view towards Varengeville.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR778, SDbl, The Pointe de L’Ailly, low tide, 60×100, private (iR3;iR94;R22,no778) Provenance: Durand-Ruel (1882/10; Gallimard (1899). Expos: DR1883-solo-19; 11LE-1904-PI-100; Brighton-PAL-1910-109; =? Brussels-MRBA-1922-MI-24; Rosenberg-1924-12. Info: view on the Pointe de l’Ailly towards Varengeville.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR782, SDbl, Soleil couchant, temp brumeux, Pourville, 60×73, A2022/05/14 (iR15;iR10;iR4;R22) Provenance: Durand-Ruel (1883/12); Spencer (1886). Expos: New York-1886-IP-184. Info: view towards the Pointe de L’Ailly near Varengeville.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR711, SDbl, Foggy Morning at Pourville, 60×73, Birmingham MA (USA) (iR6;R22,no711) Provenance: Durand-Ruel (1882/04); Holtz; Durand-Ruel (1911). Expos: DR1883-solo-43; New York-1886-IP-216; New York-ULC-1891-64; Chicago-WCE-1893-3005; New York-LC-1899-2; DRNY1911-4; DRNY1919-4. Info: view on the Falaise d’Aval looking south.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR788, SDbl, Cliffs near Pourville, 60×81, RMT Enschede (iR3;R22,no788;M79) Provenance: Durand-Ruel (?1882/04); Petit (1883/08); Fitzgerald (1892ca). Expos: Boston-SBC-1892-9; Boston-SBC-1899-8; Boston-CH-1905-11; Boston-MFA-1911-25; Boston-MFA-1919/20. Location: Falaise d’Aval.
Between Pourville and Varengeville: The following pictures are made between Pourville and Varengeville, also with the view towards the sea.
First you have the Mordal cleft (iR9), Point du Petit Ailly (with the beach and the gorge) (iR9), more to the south the Gorge du Moutiers (iR9). Claude Monet often depicted the former coastguard cabin / customs house (also called ‘fishermans cottage’) on top of the Gorge du Petit Ailly: (iR6; R22,CR730-743 +802-806 +1427 +1448-1458); sometimes he just depicted the Point du Petit Ailly: CR1428 +1429 +1445-1447.
Monet also depicted the Chemin de la Cavée, which leads to the Villa Julliette where he did stay from mid-June till early October 1882 (R22,CR762+751 +764): CR760-764.
Monet depicted the Mordal cleft or gorge in CR787 (iR3).
Claude Monet: 1897, CR1445, SDbl, La Pointe du Petit Ailly, 73×92, A2017/11/13 (iR6;iR15;R22,no1445) Provenance: Durand-Ruel (1898/11). Expos: GP1898-24 or 25; DRNY1915-7.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR762, SDbr, Chemin de la Cavée, Pourville, 60×81, MFA Boston (iR6;iR8;iR10;R22,no762;M22) Provenance: Durand-Ruel (1882/10 -1888 + 1900-1903); Loring. Expos: =? DR1883-24; London-D&D-SdI-1883-34; DRNY-1902-13; Boston-CH-1905-35. Location: Chemin de la Cavée leading to the Villa Juliette, between Varengeville and Pourville.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR741, SDbr, The fisherman’s house at Le Petit Ailly, 65×81, private (iR10;iR154;R231-1;R22=R127,no741) Provenance: ?1882/10 Durand-Ruel; sale Charles Leroux HD1888/02/28-58; Chocquet; sale GP1899/07/01-76; Monet; 1907-1909 Durand-Ruel. Expos: GP-1889-M+R-53; EU-1900-C-488, Cabane à Pourville (appartient à M. Claude Monet). Info: the former coastguard cabin.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR805, SDbl, Fisherman’s cottage at Varengeville, 61×88, MFA Boston (iR51;iR3;R22,no805;M22) Provenance: Durand-Ruel (?1882/10); Petit (1883/08); de Porto-Riche (sale GP1890/05/14-22); Durand-Ruel; Perking Rogers (1890). Expos: Boston-SBC-1892-1; Boston-SBC-1899-24; Boston-CH-1903-A9; Boston-CH-1905-3; Boston-MFA-1911-33.
Claude Monet: 1897, CR1455, SDbl, The coastguards cabin at Varengeville, 65×92, AI Chicago (M20;iR6;R22,no1455) Provenance: Allard et Noël (?1899); Masson (1911ca); Durand-Ruel. Expos: =? GP1898-27 or 28; BJ1911-23; Chicago-SH-1914.
View from Varengeville towards Pourville: The following pictures are made near Varengeville with the view towards the east-north, towards Pourville.
Some of these paintings are made at the foot of Le Petit Ailly (iR9), others (more to the west-south) near the Gorge des Moutiers (iR9). Claude Monet depicted this in the following paintings: CR720-723 +792 +793 +806-808.
Claude Monet: 1882, SDbl, CR722, Low tide at Varengeville, 60×81, MTB Madrid (iR10;iR6;R22,no722;M100) Provenance: 1882/04 Durand-Ruel (till 1906). Expos: =Tours-1882; =London-EI-1882-2; =Boston-1883-13; DR1899/04-14; London-GG-1905-127; DR1908-p-31. Info: view towards Pourville.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR792, SDbr, Shadows on the sea (the cliffs) at Pourville, 57×80, NCG Copenhagen (iR3;R22;M90) Provenance: Durand-Ruel (?1882/04); Petit (1883/08); Prince de Wagram; Levesque; NCG. Expos: =? DR1883-solo-48; Copenhagen-1914-XIX-148; Stockholm-1917-XIX-73. Location: from Petit Ailly viewing north-east towards Pourville and Dieppe in the distance.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR808, SDbl, Waves and rocks at Pourville, 60×73, private (iR3;iR94;iR10;R22,no808) Provenance: Durand-Ruel (?1882/04); Petit (1883/08; Reinach. Expos: =? DR1883-solo-51; Saint-Petersburg-1912-C-444. Location: view towards the Falaise d’Amont and Dieppe.
Varengeville: Varengeville-sur-Mer lies about 79km north-east of Le Havre (iR9).
Artists that painted here are: Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Victor Vignon and also Georges Bracque (1883-1963), Eugène Isabey, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Félix Vallotton (iR6). See pages with many pictures Monet made here (iR482; iR6)
Caracteristic are the pine trees on top of the cliffs in Varengeville (R22,CR767); Monet depicted them, wrongly naming them Sapins (=fir trees): CR798-801.
Locations depicted: Claude Monet depicted the Saint-Valéry church in CR725-728 +794-796 (R22; iR3; iR6).
Monet made a view from the heights of the Gorge des Moutiers (iR9) in CR729. Victor Vignon also depicted a gorge in Varengeville.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR796, SDbl, The cliffs and the church at Varengeville, 60×81, private (iR3;R22,no796) Provenance: Durand-Ruel (1883/01); Masson (1903/05); sale HD1911/06/22-24; Durand-Ruel (1911-14). Expos: DR1883-29; Dresden-1899-16; London-HG-1901-FI-6; London-NG-1909; BJ1911-25; Jeu de Paume-1912-142; Berlin-Cassirer-1913-XV. Info: morning light.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR726, SDbr, The church at Varengeville, sunset, 65×81, private (iR10;iR482;R22,no726;R22IV,p1017) Provenance: 1882/04 Durand-Ruel; 1883 Georges Petit; 1885? Herz; Henri Vever; sale GP1897/02/02-81; Montaignac. Expos: =DR1883-28; =? 4EIP-1885-72; =? 3XX-1886-1; =? GP1899-47. Info: painted from ‘les Communes’; view towards the Gorge des Moutiers and the Saint-Valéry church.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR727, SDbr, The church at Varengeville, against the sunlight, 65×81, Birmingham BIFA (iRx;R231-1;R22=R127,no727;M189) Provenance: ?1882/04 Durand-Ruel; 1883/08 G. Petit; 1889ca, Pr. de Polignac; 1897 Durand-Ruel. Expos: GP1889-M+R-61; DR1889-19; =? EU-1900-C-487, L’Église de Varengeville, 1882 (appartient à M. Claude Monet); London-GG-1905-147. Info: painted from ‘les Communes’; view towards the Gorge des Moutiers and the Saint-Valéry church.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR797, SDbr, Les Fonds de Varengeville, 65×81, private (iR10;iR423;iR6;iR7;R22,no797) Provenance: 1882/10 Durand-Ruel; 1883 Petit; 1889ca Guillemard; Clapisson; sale HD1894/04/28-21; Montaignac; 1912ca Doucet. Expos: DR1883-34; 3XX-1886-3; GP1889-59; Saint-Petersburg-C-1912-441; PR1922-XIX-60. Info: view towards Dieppe in the east-north.
Victor Vignon, 1882-84, Normandy Valley, Varengeville, 23×22, MF Aix-les-Bains (iR94;R272,p8;M13) =? BJ1894-23, Ravin de Varengeville (aR9=iR19)
Marines: There were also pictures made from the full sea of the English channel in Pourville and it’s surroundings. These pictures will be mentioned and rendered here. Claude Monet made the following pure marines: CR714 +715 +771-775.
Claude Monet: 1882, CR771, SDbr, Sunset on the sea, off Pourville, 54×73, private (iRx;R22,no771;R2,p395) Provenance: Durand-Ruel (1882/10). Expo: compare: 7IE-1882-60 Marine; =? DR1883-solo-39; DR1908-M+R-3.
Recommanded citation: “Impressionism, locations where the ‘impressionists’ did paint: Pourville and surroundings. Last modified 2026/07/18. https://www.impressionism.nl/pourville/”
