Then and now...

[CurtEastPoint]

Last year I went to Normandy and took a photo of the beach at Etretat. It's here:



This year my family and I (sister, niece/hubby/daughter) went to Paris and London. One day in Paris I was feeling like poo so I crashed while they went to the Orsay Museum. This was in April. My niece finally got all her photos organized into Dropbox and sent them to me.

As I was looking through her photos of Orsay, this one stood out. Monet was all I knew. I Googled Monet paintings at Orsay and found it. It is the same place, painted in 1883. I was just stunned.

Thought I would share!!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Wow, look at the current level of the water!

It's way down from when he painted his picture.



Thanks for sharing.

[malthaussen]

6. I think it is a matter of angle...

... the painting covers more area than the photo, hence you don't see the beach. The pic linked downthread resembles the Monet more closely.

-- Mal

[NV Whino]

2. Nice.

[csziggy]

3. Checking to see if there was still a building there

That was not shown in your photo. I found this page: http://planetden.com/nature/beautiful-heights-sea-cliffs-etretat-france

And yes there is still a building. And they still pull boats up on the beach!


What wonderful pictures - both yours and your daughter's.

[CurtEastPoint]

5. I tried to shoot around the modern hotel and get the church at the top but it was difficult.

I was about 1/2 mile away on another bluff at a hotel. Thanks!

[csziggy]

7. I like the framing of your picture

But the building in the painting peaked my interest. I bet both buildings, old and new, were/are hotels!

[mnhtnbb]

4. How cool!