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Start with the woman under the trees, then follow her view across the river to the buildings and their broken reflections.
The seated figure is Camille Doncieux, Monet’s future wife. She looks from an island toward Gloton, a hamlet beside Bennecourt where they briefly stayed in 1868. Traces beneath the surface suggest that Monet initially painted a child in her arms, probably their son Jean.
Oil on canvas · 81.5 × 100.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt
- Artist
- Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
- Date
- 1868
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 81.5 × 100.7 cm (32 1/16 × 39 5/8 in.); Framed: 98.5 × 117.8 × 8 cm (38 3/4 × 46 3/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Potter Palmer 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.