# La Corniche near Monaco

- By: Claude Monet (Paris, 1840–1926)
- Date: 1884
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 75 cm x width 94 cm
- Credit line: Gift of M.C., Baroness van Lynden-van Pallandt, The Hague
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-1892--f66e7df764f1dd1ad1bae6533dc9faa8)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/VPrnZ/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.