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Trace the jagged silhouettes of the rocks, then compare their dense surfaces with the scattered marks in the water.
Monet planned to spend two weeks on Belle-Île in 1886 and remained for more than two months. Its cliffs and offshore rocks demanded prolonged work. This canvas belongs to a group examining the formations at Port-Goulphar, a very different coastal setting from the open beaches of his Normandy views.
Oil on canvas · 66 × 81.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Rocks at Port-Goulphar, Belle-Île
- Artist
- Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
- Date
- 1886
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 66 × 81.8 cm (26 × 32 3/16 in.); Framed: 83.9 × 100.4 × 9.9 cm (33 × 39 1/2 × 3 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
- 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.