Dear God, this cursed Cathedral is hard to do… Fourteen paintings on the go today… I'm exhausted and it seems that every day the light changes: it gets whiter and higher up.
— Claude Monet Modern

Impressionism founder

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Letter to Alice Hoschedé, regarding his Rouen Cathedral series

Date / Period

1892

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.monet-giverny.com/monets-life-through-his-letters-and-paintings/

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