Untitled [Cliffs by the Water]; verso: Untitled [Mountains by the Water]

From his earliest years as a painter, Monet’s art was rooted in the direct and prolonged analysis of nature. Throughout his career, he grappled with the task of developing techniqu...

“The whole landscape, which, seen by a favourable light, and in a genial temperature, had been found so lovely, appeared now like some pictured allegory of life, in which objects w...

Pleated paper fan, painted on the front in water-colours with a racing scene, sticks and guards of tortoiseshell, Great Britain, late 18th century. Pleated paper fan, painted on th...