Houses on the Achterzaan

Name: Houses on the Achterzaan
Brand: Claude Monet
Price: 189.0 USD
Availability: InStock

1871 · oil · Claude Monet

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Houses on the Achterzaan by Claude Monet, shown at 28 × 42 in (71.1 × 106.7 cm) on canvas in Ramino Satin Black, living — Shown at 28 × 42 in (71.1 × 106.7 cm) · Framed canvas, Ramino Satin Black · Living room

Houses on the Achterzaan by Claude Monet, shown at 28 × 42 in (71.1 × 106.7 cm) in Ramino Opaque White, dining — Shown at 28 × 42 in (71.1 × 106.7 cm) · Framed paper, Ramino Opaque White · Dining

Houses on the Achterzaan by Claude Monet, shown at 28 × 42 in (71.1 × 106.7 cm) as gallery-wrapped canvas, hotel guest room — Shown at 28 × 42 in (71.1 × 106.7 cm) · Gallery-wrapped canvas · Hotel guest room

Story

A quiet waterway runs past a dwelling with green shutters, its walls catching the light near a line of willow trees. A sailboat rests near the bank, and the whole scene lies still under a soft pale sky, mirrored in the calm river below. The painting shows a house, a boat, and a river framed as a landscape, painted in oil in 1871, and it is held today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Claude Monet, born in 1840 and died in 1926, worked within Impressionism and also painted Haystacks. Worth noticing is how the reflection of the house and trees doubles the composition, blurring the line between the structure above and its watery echo below.