The Regatta at Sainte-Adresse is an oil-on-canvas painting by the impressionist painter Claude Monet.
Sainte-Adresse, the well-to-do suburb of Le Havre, was the home of Monet's father.
Destitute, Monet spent the summer of 1867 with his father and aunt Sophie Lecadre at the cost of abandoning his companion, Camille Doncieux, and their newborn son, Jean.
[1] The pair of paintings juxtaposes this sunny regatta watched at high tide by well dressed bourgeois, with an overcast scene at low tide, fishing boats hauled onto the beach peopled with sailors and workers.
[1] On 25 June 1867, Monet reported that he was working on about twenty pictures: "Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails."