La Corniche near Monaco
In Monet’s time La Corniche was a narrow mountain track; nowadays, it is the main road between Nice and Monaco. Here the sun is high, the lone walker’s shadow short. Monet’s colours glisten: red, green, blue – everything shimmers in the sunlight. The painting was given to the Rijksmuseum already in 1900, when Monet’s work was still entirely unknown in the Netherlands. ...
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1884
Oil on canvas
75.0 x 94.0cm
SK-A-1892
Image and text courtesy of Rijksmuseum, 2019
Where you'll find this
Permanent collection