View of Rouelles

Date: 1858
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: private collection
Dimensions: 46 x 65

This is the first Monet professional work - picture painted when he was just 18 years old. With almost photographic accuracy this work created in the open air under the guidance of his master Eugene Bouldina. View comes from near Le Havre, which lies in the upper Normandy in France. Nature, its shapes and colors were to Moneta always a great inspiration. For some time it seemed that the painting was lost for good, but he managed it again to find and identify.

Monet painted picture View of Rouelles in 1858. Prevailing color of this fine art print is green and its shape is landscape. Original size is 46 x 65. This art piece is located in a private collection This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Claude Oscar Monet (1840-1926). A native Parisian, who thoroughly developed the idea of Impressionism. Monet almost scientifically studied the effect of light on different objects. He devoted himself to so called transitory states, which quickly led him to work with colour and light, his paintings acting on the viewer from the first impression. His use of open-air painting and objects which were special only because of light opened the way for the beginnings of modern painting. Monet’s Impression, Sunrise (1874) not only gave the name to the whole art movement, but secured Monet a place among the best painters of all times. At one time, he resided in London and created his famous study Houses of Parliament (Monet wondered, How could the English painters paint Parliament when it cannot be seen for the fog?). In the Giverny, which became his favourite retreat after the death of his wife, he painted motifs from his garden and the popular series Water Lilies - the world of the water was as poetic and mysterious as a primordial paradise.