Pointe de l’Ailly at Low Tide (Pointe de l’Ailly, marée basse), painted by Claude Monet in 1882, shows the chalk cliffs of the Ailly headland near Varengeville falling away to a wide stretch of wet sand, where tiny figures wander as the retreating sea mirrors a glowing evening sky. Monet painted the Normandy coast around Pourville and Var...