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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