The Seashore at Sainte-Adresse (Le Bord de mer à Sainte-Adresse), painted by Claude Monet c. 1864 captures a windswept stretch of the Normandy coast near Le Havre, where a grassy bluff slopes down to a pebbled beach dotted with fishing boats. Under a heavy, cloud-streaked sky, a lone sailboat cuts through the choppy green-gray water while