The Outer Harbour at Zaandam (De Voorzaan), c. 1871 by Claude Monet

The Outer Harbour at Zaandam (De Voorzaan), painted by Claude Monet in 1871 looks across the broad, pale waters of the Voorzaan, where dark sailing barges drift before a low shoreline of windmills, timber yards and small houses. A vast overcast sky fills most of the canvas, its silvery grays mirrored in the calm harbour so that water and air nearly merge. Monet painted it during his four-month stay in Zaandam in the summer and autumn of 1871, when the windmills and waterways of Holland yielded some two dozen canvases on his journey home after the Franco-Prussian War.

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: 1871.

The Outer Harbour at Zaandam (De Voorzaan), 1871 by Claude Monet. Dutch Harbour Wall Art Canvas Print.