Palazzo Contarini, 1908 – Claude Monet Wall Art | Late Impressionist Venetian Palace Canvas Print

Painted in 1908 during his ten-week stay in Venice, Claude Monet's Palazzo Contarini presents the late-Gothic palace on the south side of the Grand Canal in a cropped frontal view, the polychrome stone façade dissolving into a shimmering interplay of blues, violets, and greys upon the water below. The work belongs to the celebrated cycle of thirty-seven Venetian canvases — the painter's only sustained engagement with the lagoon city — in which he subordinated architectural detail to the play of reflected light, much as he had done in his Rouen Cathedral and water-lily series. The painting is now held in the Hasso Plattner Collection at the Museum Barberini, Potsdam. A historically significant and luminous work for any interior drawn to the late achievements of French Impressionism.