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Port-Goulphar, Belle-Île  1887

by Claude Monet

Painted in the same year as Pissarro's pointillist canvas, this impressionist seascape by Claude Monet is conservative in comparison. Nevertheless, in the context of Monet's oeuvre at the time it represents an adventurous advance. This is no conventional example of marine painting. The horizon, a feature generally used by seascapists to stabilise their compositions, is com...
Size: 
81.0 x 65.0 cm
Medium: 
Oil on Canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons