Claude Monet - The Corniche of Monaco 1884

The Corniche of Monaco 1884
The Corniche of Monaco
1884 75x94cm oil/canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Nederland

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From Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam:
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.