Grey weather softens the stone portal of Rouen Cathedral

The cathedral's central portal and flanking towers are rendered in muted grey, lavender and beige, built up with dense, dry brushstrokes that mimic carved stone under overcast light. The rose window and portal arches appear as darker recessed shapes. Unlike the sunlit version of the façade, the palette here stays cool and even throughout, with almost no blue sky visible. Signed 'Claude Monet 94' at lower left. Part of Monet's Rouen Cathedral series.

Claude Monet (1840–1926) gave Impressionism its name and its longest career. From the 1870s he painted outdoors in the Seine valley and on the Normandy coast, pursuing the changing light of a single motif in series — haystacks, poplars, Rouen Cathedral, the Thames — and from 1890 the garden he built at Giverny, whose water lilies occupied his last twenty-five years. His paintings are held by the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée Marmottan Monet, the National Gallery in London and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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