Shop art print and framed art The Ducal Palace from San Giorgio by Claude Monet

Le Palais Ducal or The Doge's Palace is the name given to various oil paintings which depict the Doge's Palace (in Italian, Palazzo Ducale, translated to French as Palais Ducal) made by Claude Monet during a visit to Venice in 1908. Monet painted the Doge's Palace from several viewpoints during his three month sojourn in Venice, from October to December 1908. The title Le Palais Ducal generally refers to three similar paintings dominated by the palace itself, painted from a boat moored in the lagoon: one in the collection of Adele and Herbert J. Klapper in the US, a second in the Brooklyn Museum, and a third in a private collection of the Goeritz family in the UK from the 1920s until it was sold at Sotheby's in February 2019. They are catalogued by Wildenstein as W1742 to W1744. The Impressionist work is painted with dappled brushstrokes in a bright palette of pinks, yellows and blues, bathed in a warm light. It is roughly divided into two horizontal zones. The upper part depicts the pink and white diamond patterned stonework of the Venetian Gothic palace walls pierced by arched windows with colonnaded arcades on the lower two floors, the blue sky above, the Lion of Venice column in the Piazzetta di San Marco to the left, and Ponte della Paglia and the New Prison (Prigioni Nuove) building to the right. The lower part is filled with the rippling waters of the Venetian lagoon and the reflection of the buildings. Monet had intended to return to paint in Venice again, but [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the impressionism style.

 

« The Ducal Palace from San Giorgio » is kept at Private Collection.

 

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