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

The Rocks of Belle Ile (Rough Sea)

1886
Oil on canvas, 65 x 82 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

At Etretat in Normandy Monet was fascinated by the sheer cliffs and the bizarre shape of the Manneporte, an arch of rock. He returned to the subject over several years, and to the jagged crags and stormy Atlantic at Belle-Ile-en-Mer in Brittany. Using Impressionist dabs to establish an irregular pattern was almost as important in such work as recording a striking view.




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