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Try to locate the boundary between the trees and their reflections. How does the almost square format complicate that division?
Monet repeatedly set out by boat before dawn to paint this part of the Seine, working on fourteen canvases as conditions changed. The hazy appearance was carefully constructed: he blurred an earlier, clearer horizon and chose an unusually near-square canvas. Half the view is reflection.
Oil on canvas · 89.9 × 92.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist)
- Artist
- Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
- Date
- 1897
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 89.9 × 92.7 cm (35 3/8 × 36 1/2 in.); Framed: 112.4 × 115.6 × 11.5 cm (44 1/4 × 45 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.