Painted almost entirely in tones of topaz, lapis, and sky blue, the façade of a building abutting a waterway fills this horizontal painting. Brushstrokes are visible throughout and they blend to make the scene appear hazy. The top two-thirds of this painting shows the front of a building with two stories of rows of pointed, arched windows. Two long, low boats, gondolas, are pulled up side-by-side to one of the arched openings at the water level of the canal, to our right. A few touches of amethyst purple and mauve pink delineate some of the architectural features and shadows amid a field of…
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Palazzo da Mula, Venice

Claude Monet (French, 1840 - 1926)

1908

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 61.4 x 80.5 cm (24 3/16 x 31 11/16 in.) ; framed: 86.3 x 105.4 x 10.7 cm (34 x 41 1/2 x 4 3/16 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
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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