Bordighera  1884

by Claude Monet

Early in 1884, Claude Monet traveled to Bordighera, a town on the Italian Riviera, close to the border between Italy and France, for a working visit of three weeks that turned into nearly three months. In a letter to the sculptor [url=http://useum.org/artist/Auguste-Rodin]Auguste Rodin[/url] describing his efforts to translate into paint the brilliant Mediterranean light, ...
Size: 
65 x 80.8 cm (25 5/8 x 31 13/16 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on Canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago