Windmills near Zaandam  1871

The French artist Claude Monet was the leading figure among the Impressionists. He paid three visits to the Netherlands, during the first of which he spent four months in Zaandam. It was ‘all very amusing’, he wrote to his friend, the artist Camille Pissarro: ‘Houses in every colour, mills by the hundred and delightful boats, exceptionally friendly Hollanders who almost al...