On a flowering terrace above the Channel near Le Havre, members of Monet's family take the sun while sailboats and steamers pass. Painted in the summer of 1867, it pairs smooth passages with quick, separate strokes of pure colour. The high viewpoint and stacked bands of terrace, sea and sky echo the Japanese prints Monet collected.
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Monet called it "the Chinese painting in which there are flags." Two flags snap in the same sea breeze, one of them the French tricolour.
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