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La Corniche near Monaco
Also titled La Corniche bij Monaco
Claude Monet (Paris, 1840–1926)
1884
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 75 cm x width 94 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of M.C., Baroness van Lynden-van Pallandt, The Hague
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
In Monet’s time La Corniche was a narrow mountain track; nowadays, it is the main road between Nice and Monaco. Here the sun is high, the lone walker’s shadow short. Monet’s colours glisten: red, green, blue – everything shimmers in the sunlight. The painting was given to the Rijksmuseum already in 1900, when Monet’s work was still entirely unknown in the Netherlands.
