Claude Monet - Valley of the Creuse, Sunlight Effect 1889

Valley of the Creuse, Sunlight Effect 1889
Valley of the Creuse, Sunlight Effect
1889 65x92cm oil/canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA

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From Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
This picture belongs to a group that Monet painted during his 1889 stay at Fresselines in the Massif Central region of France. It represents the convergence of two rivers, the Petite Creuse and the Grande Creuse, under the midday sun. Bright light casts every cranny and outcropping of rock into high relief and makes the river below sparkle with Monet’s impasted strokes of white.