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Rouen Cathedral: setting sun (symphony in grey and black)

MONET, Claude

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Working from the window of a milliner's shop overlooking its facade, Monet began his series of over thirty views of Rouen Cathedral in February 1892. He returned in February 1893 and completed it at Giverny in 1893-94. This painting of the cathedral viewed by the light of the setting sun is one of twenty 'Cathédrales' exhibited to immense critical success at Paris in 1895. As a record of the ways in which light transforms the appearance of a motif, the series nears the limits of 'scientific' Impressionism. The 1890s were a decade of nationalist revival in France and Monet's choice of a great French mediaeval monument in the city where Joan of Arc was martyred implies a consciously patriotic purpose. The unusual frame of this painting, with historicising pilasters and the inscription 'Cl. Monet' in gothic letters, suggests that a previous owner perceived it as a nationalist symbol as well as a dispassionate record of light effects. Gwendoline Davies purchased this work at Paris in December 1917.

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Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 2482

Creation/Production

MONET, Claude
Date: 1892-1894

Acquisition

Bequest, 10/4/1952

Techniques

Canvas

Material

Oil

Location

on display

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