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Claude Monet (14th Nov, 1840 - 5th Dec, 1926)

Grosse mer à Etretat

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Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski

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About the artwork

Title:

Grosse mer à Etretat

Periods:

contemporary period from 1789 until 1914

Techniques:

Dimensions:

660 x 1310

Inventory number:

RF1678

Detail:

vers 1868-1869

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On the Musée d'Orsay website

About the author(s)

Author:

Also known as:

Claude-Oscar Monet

Born:

14th Nov, 1840

Dead:

5th Dec, 1926

Country:

France

See more about this author on Wikipedia:

Oscar-Claude Monet (/moʊˈneɪ/; French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent… Read more...