We look across the water at two sailing ships with cream-white sails and dark rigging floating in a shimmering, ice-blue river against a distant shore lined with trees, hills, and buildings in this nearly square landscape painting. The horizon comes about halfway up the painting, and the ships’ masts and sails are silhouetted against a topaz-blue sky with wispy white clouds. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes throughout so many of the details are indistinct. One boat floats near the left edge of the painting and the second is situated a little father back, to our right of…
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Ships Riding on the Seine at Rouen

Claude Monet (French, 1840 - 1926)

1872/1873

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 37.7 x 46 cm (14 13/16 x 18 1/8 in.) ; framed: 59.7 x 68 x 10.2 cm (23 1/2 x 26 3/4 x 4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce 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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