The Seine at Vetheuil by Monet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2009

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

Title: The Seine at Vétheuil

Date: 1880

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 23 3/4 x 39 1/2 in. (60.3 x 100.3 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915

Accession Number: 30.95.271

Not On View

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The extreme horizontality, the sweeping arc of the riverbank, and the types of the brushstrokes used in the foreground and sky of this painting are characteristc of Monet's work of the early 1880s. Monet had abandoned his Impressionist manner of the previous decade and had begun to experiment with new compositional formats, a different palette, and a variety of brushstrokes and surface effects.

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