Mon avis : contrairement au grand public, ce n'est pas une période de l'art français que je préfère, mais je dois admettre que j'ai toujours fait une exception pour Monet et les dessins et pastels exposés sont magnifiques.

“Bank of the Seine,” a Monet pastel on tan paper from about 1869. Monet rarely mentioned his hundreds of drawings, preferring to be known only as a painter. (Photographs from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute)

“Étretat, the Needle Rock and Porte d’Aval,” a Monet pastel on tan paper from about 1885. (Photographs from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute)

A study of sailboats and a harbor dating from the 1860s. (Photographs from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute)

A pastel of the Waterloo Bridge in London from about 1901. (Photographs from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute)

An 1883 drawing of Rouen by Monet. (Photographs from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute)

A drawing of a woman in red chalk from the 1890s. (Photographs from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute)

“The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings” will be at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from March 17 to June 10, and at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., from June 24 to Sept. 16.