The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light  1894

by Claude Monet

"Everything changes, even stone." Claude Monet wrote these words in a letter and vividly demonstrated them in paint, conveying a wondrous combination of permanence and mutability as the sun daily transformed the facade of Rouen Cathedral. Extending the building's encrusted stone surface to the richly varied impasto surface of his painting, he portrayed the cathedral perpet...
Size: 
100.3 × 65.1 cm (39 1/2 × 25 5/8 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on Canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of The Getty