Shop art print and framed art The Seine at Rouen by Claude Monet
Subjects : Seascape
Keywords : Painting, boat, cathedral, river, sailing, ship, tree
(Ref : 137144) © Private Collection / Christie's Images / Bridgeman Images
The Seine at Rouen by Claude Monet(Ref : 137144) © Private Collection / Christie's Images / Bridgeman Images
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The Seine at Rouen OF Claude Monet
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The Seine at Rouen
The Seine at Rouen is an oil on canvas by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet, painted in 1872 and now in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.
It measures 54 × 65.5 cm and depicts sailing boats moored on the quays of Rouen on a sunny day. The painting is remarkable for its vertical and horizontal construction: the trees and their foliage echoing the boats, and the effects of light on the Seine.
This painting was part of the Otto Krebs collection, which was confiscated in 1945 as reparations for war damage suffered by the USSR. It is now in the Hermitage Museum and has been on public display since 1995.
A retrospective of Monet's works (including The Seine in Rouen) was held at the Hermitage Museum from February to May 2002, with paintings on loan from all over the [...]
This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the impressionism style.
« The Seine at Rouen » is kept at Private Collection.
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