Claude Monet - The Doges' Palace Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore 1908
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The Doges' Palace Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore 1908
65x100cm oil/canvas
Sotheby's. Lot Sold 11,573,000 GBP. Private collection
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Sotheby's:
Monet’s spectacular view of the Palazzo Ducale on the Grand Canal belongs to the extraordinary series he completed in Venice in the fall of 1908. Painted from the south-east vantage of a floating pontoon, the scene depicts the Palace, with its Byzantine fenestrations adorning the façade, alongside the Ponte della Paglia and the prison building on the right. To the left of the palace is the entrance to Saint Mark’s square, and the silhouette of the bell tower and can be seen in the open space. Through a Renaissance-inspired sfumato technique Monet conjures the briny mist of the Adriatic, and the oblique pontoon and moorings convey the lulling motion of its current.