Claude Monet - Windmill near Zaandam 1871
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Windmill near Zaandam 1871
42x73cm oil/canvas
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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Painted during a visit to Holland in 1871. The colour is subdued and the sky overcast but the white ground on which it is painted gives a natural luminosity to the scene and the varied brush-strokes create a fresh, windswept effect. It was painted near Zaandam, about twelve miles from Amsterdam.