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MONET, Claude: The Manneporte near Étretat

🖼 The Manneporte near Étretat, 1886
Oil on canvas
81 × 65 cm
New York, USA

Golden light dissolves the rocky arch into shimmering atmosphere, with Monet capturing the dramatic limestone portal in soft, broken brushstrokes. His serial studies of Étretat's cliffs revolutionized landscape painting, emphasizing light's transformative power over fixed form.

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