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Claude Monet

The Seine at Giverny, 1885

Now On View

Description

Maker

  • Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French

Title

The Seine at Giverny

Year

1885

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

64.8 x 92.7 cm (25 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed and dated LR:Claude Monet 85

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Museum Appropriation Fund, by exchange

Object Number

44.541

Projects & Publications

Publications

Monet and American Impressionism

Monet and the Seine

Impressions of a River

Selected Works

European Paintings and Sculpture, ca. 1770 - 1937

A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Exchange Exhibition, Exhibition Exchange

From the Collection of Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; From the Collection of The Museum of Art, Rhode

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Inventing Impressionism

October 21, 2016 - June 11, 2017

Monet may have begun this view from a boat or on a nearby shore. One of a series he painted of this site, where the Seine joins the River Epte, it suggests a reverie in which forms have been abstracted and recalled.

Here Monet frames a confluence of the rivers and the luminous sky with densely massed foliage. Rose-blue light infuses the landscape, emanating from above and repeated in a watery reflection. Subtly distinguishing the trees from their mirror images, Monet loosened and reoriented his brushstrokes to record their presence in the flowing river. Similarly, he transformed the diagonal movement of the clouds into scattered marks in the waves below.

European Painting and Sculpture, circa 1770-1937

October 18, 1991 - January 26, 1992

Exchange Exhibition of Paintings from Rose Museum, Brandeis University

February 16 - April 2, 1967

Historias

January 15 - February 13, 1945

European Galleries

This view of the Seine where it joins the river Epte was likely begun from a boat or on a nearby shore. One of a series Monet painted of this site, it suggests a reverie in which forms have been abstracted and recalled.

Monet frames the confluence of the river and the luminous sky with densely massed foliage. Rose-blue light infuses the landscape, emanating from above and repeated in a watery reflection. Subtly distinguishing the trees from their mirror images, the artist loosened and reoriented his brushstrokes to record their presence in the flowing river. Similarly, he transformed the diagonal movement of the clouds into scattered marks in the waves below.

Use

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