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Impression, Sunrise | Claude Monet | 1872

Impression, Sunrise | Claude Monet | 1872

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"Impression, Sunrise" by Claude Monet, painted in 1872, is a seminal work that gave the Impressionist movement its name. This painting depicts the port of Le Havre, Monet's hometown, at sunrise, capturing the ephemeral play of light and color on the water with loose, expressive brushstrokes. The muted palette of blues, grays, and oranges conveys the coolness of the early morning, while the sun, depicted as a blur of red, reflects off the water, creating a mesmerizing effect. Monet's focus on the atmospheric conditions and his ability to capture the essence of the moment rather than the details of the landscape marked a significant departure from traditional landscape painting. "Impression, Sunrise" is celebrated for its innovative technique and its ability to evoke a mood and a moment, encapsulating the core principles of the Impressionist movement.

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  • Title Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant)
  • Artist Claude Monet (Oscar-Claude Monet, French Impressionist; Paris, 14 November 1840 - Giverny, 5 December 1926)
  • Year of creation 1872 (signed lower left "Claude Monet" and later dated "72" by the artist. A stay at the Hôtel de l'Amirauté in Le Havre around November 1872 provided Monet with the subject of his most famous painting; from the window of his room the artist quickly painted a view to the southeast of the outer harbour seen in the early morning hours, with the rising orange sun and its reflection on the water and the silhouettes of ships, masts, smokestacks and cranes in the misty industrial port. Recent solar and tidal calculations by astrophysicist Donald Olson have placed the scene around 7:35 a.m. on 13 November 1872. The painting is the most famous of a series of six canvases Monet made of the Le Havre harbour "during dawn, day, dusk, and dark and from varying viewpoints." It was first shown — initially titled simply Marina, then retitled by Monet for the catalogue — at the inaugural exhibition of the Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs at Nadar's studio on Boulevard des Capucines in April 1874, where it inspired the satirical journalist Louis Leroy of Le Charivari to coin the derisive term "Impressionists" — a name the group then adopted. The painting was stolen from the Musée Marmottan on 27 October 1985 along with eight other works in an armed robbery led by Philippe Jamin, and recovered in Corsica in December 1990)
  • Technique/Medium Oil on canvas
  • Original dimensions 50 x 65 cm (per the Musée Marmottan Monet's own catalogue entry; widely reproduced as 48 x 63 cm in older references)
  • Collection/Museum Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris (inv. 4014; donated by Eugène and Victorine Donop de Monchy, acquired 23 May 1940; the painting passed from Monet to Ernest Hoschedé, then to Dr Georges de Bellio, and through inheritance to Donop de Monchy)

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