La Corniche near Monaco

Claude Monet (1840–1926), oil on canvas, 1884

In Monet’s time La Corniche was a narrow mountain track; nowadays, it is the main road between Nice and Monaco. Here the sun is high, the lone walker’s shadow short. Monet’s colours glisten: red, green, blue – everything shimmers in the sunlight. The painting was given to the Rijksmuseum already in 1900, when Monet’s work was still entirely unknown in the Netherlands.

  • Artwork typepainting
  • Object numberSK-A-1892
  • Dimensionsheight 75 cm x width 94 cm