Claude Monet - Belle-Ile, Rain Effect 1886
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Belle-Ile, Rain Effect 1886
73x60cm oil/canvas
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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Belle-Ile, rain effect is a product of Monet’s two month stay on the island of Belle-Ile, off the coast of Brittany. He was fascinated by what he called ‘this sinister land’, where great granite outcrops had been twisted into fantastic shapes by the relentless forces of wind and water. Monet kept prolonging his stay so that he could paint the effect of the changing coastal light on these natural features, and the endless waves surging around them.