Monet, Claude (1840-1926)
La Corniche près de Monaco (La Corniche near Monaco)
1884
Oil on canvas, 75 x 94 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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. (RIJKS)
See also:
• Monaco