The Museum at Le Havre (Le Musée du Havre), painted by Claude Monet in 1873 looks across the rippling water of the inner harbour toward the stately museum and library of Monet’s boyhood city, its pedimented facade rising behind a line of moored sailing boats. Tall pale sails and slender masts crowd the Grand Quai, their fragmented reflections scattered through the gray green water beneath a soft overcast sky. Monet painted the view in the same period as Impression, Sunrise, standing on the harbour wall but facing the opposite direction, and the canvas now hangs in the National Gallery in London.
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: 1873.
The Museum at Le Havre (Le Musée du Havre), 1873 by Claude Monet. Le Havre Harbour Wall Art Canvas Print.