MONET, Claude
(b. 1840, Paris, d. 1926, Giverny)

Houses on the Riverbank in Zaandam

1871
Oil on canvas, 48 x 74 cm
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt

In May 1871, Monet left London for the Netherlands and for a few months settled with his wife, Camille, and son, Jean, in Zaandam, halfway between Amsterdam and Haarlem. here he painted over twenty landscapes. The influence of Dutch landscape painting can be observed in his later seascapes of Rouen and Argenteuil.