Finished 30th November 2013
40 Pieces
"Régates à Argenteuil"/"Regatta at Argenteuil" (Detail)
Painting by Claude Monet
Painting by Claude Monet
Ca. 1872
Oil on canvas, H. 48; W. 75 cm
Oil on canvas, H. 48; W. 75 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
"Regattas at Argenteuil was painted in
natural light, because tin tubes and portable easels allowed artists to
leave their studios and paint outside. Monet sought to capture the
fluidity of air and water and the way they changed with the light." (source)
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