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MONET, Claude: Quai du Louvre, Paris

🖼 Quai du Louvre, Paris, 1867
Oil on canvas
62 × 87 cm
Basel, Switzerland

Soft morning light bathes the Seine's quay in lavender and gold, with figures strolling beneath bare trees. Monet captures fleeting atmospheric effects and modern urban leisure, establishing his signature approach to light and movement that would define Impressionism.

Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
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