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Find the church above the town, then compare the buildings with their looser, vertically broken reflections below.
In summer 1901, Monet rented a house across the Seine from Vétheuil and began fifteen views from its balcony. This painting uses the town and its reflection as two broad halves of an almost square composition. Repeated brushstrokes and small changes of color establish the buildings without sharply outlining them.
Oil on canvas · 90.2 × 93.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Vétheuil
- Artist
- Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
- Date
- 1901
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 90.2 × 93.4 cm (35 1/2 × 36 3/4 in.); Framed: 101 × 104.2 × 6.4 cm (39 3/4 × 41 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial 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.