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Claude Monet

The Seine at Giverny, 1885

Now On View

Description

Maker

Title

The Seine at Giverny

Year

1885

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

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

Credit

Museum Appropriation Fund, by exchange

Object Number

44.541

Projects & Publications

Publications

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 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.

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