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Painting
Towing a Boat, Honfleur
Claude Monet, (Paris, 1840 – 1926, Giverny, France)
Monet, Claude
France
1840 - 1926
Male
21 3/4 x 32 5/16 in. (55.2 x 82.1 cm)
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traveling frame
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Oil
Oil
1864
1864
1864
1800-1900, 19th century, boats, men, paintings, seascapes
Painting
"All that is painted directly, at a given moment, has a force, power, and vitality which can never be duplicated in a studio." --Eugène Boudin, to his student Claude Monet
Claude Monet’s early paintings were solidly grounded in the work of the preceding generation of French landscape painters called the Barbizon school. Their insistence on painting en plein air, or out of doors, led to Monet’s passion for capturing the transience of light.
Towing a Boat, Honfleur, painted ten years before the term Impressionism was coined, captures the moment that night overtakes sunset. It is one of the earliest of Monet’s many seascapes. As an experiment in reproducing the changing effects of light under different atmospheric conditions, the painting shows his process of abstracting nature into simplified forms and exaggerated color contrasts.
[Label copy from Monet: Vision and Process exhibition, 2018]
lower leftback of frame
1991.35
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Memorial Art Gallery
8/8/2000
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