We look up at the exterior of a church that soars the height of this vertical painting. The church is painted with visible dabs and strokes of sky blue, cream white, golden tan, and a few touches of pale, shell pink to create a blurred look, as if seeing a reflection in the rippling surface of a puddle. The church façade is angled to our left, away from us. The main door and its surround takes up the center of the composition, where a rectangular door is set within nested, pointed arches that lead up to a narrow, tall, triangular gable. The point of that gable overlaps the round rose window,…
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Rouen Cathedral, West Façade, Sunlight

Claude Monet (French, 1840 - 1926)

1894

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 100.1 x 65.8 cm (39 3/8 x 25 7/8 in.) ; framed: 127.6 x 91.4 cm (50 1/4 x 36 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Chester Dale Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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