The Monet Date

A young couple on a date at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York take a closer look at Claude Monet’s painting Morning on the Seine near Giverny.  In the summers of 1896 and 1897, Monet set up his easel at three-thirty in the morning on a boat that he had converted into a floating studio.  There he sat as dawn broke and painted this series of 21 works.  His desire was to capture the nuances of tone and hue at the point where light dissolves into landscape.  He would paint on each numbered canvas for a few minutes and then move on to another to capture the subtle shift in tone and angle of light.

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Oil on Gessobord

6 x 6 Inches

2024

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