We look across a glimmering river toward docks, about a dozen small boats, and a mustard-brown, boxy building under a bridge that crosses the width of the canvas in this horizontal landscape painting. A patch of green grass lines the riverbank in the lower right corner of the canvas. The land curves away out of sight, and then back into the scene below the abutment of the bridge along the right side of the painting. From the ivory-colored abutment, the straight deck of the bridge is supported by two shallow, iron-gray arches, and the bridge extends off the left side of the composition. Dots…
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Bridge at Argenteuil on a Gray Day

Claude Monet (French, 1840 - 1926)

c. 1876

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 61 x 80.3 cm (24 x 31 5/8 in.) ; framed: 82.9 x 102.6 x 8.9 cm (32 5/8 x 40 3/8 x 3 1/2 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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