
The port of Le Havre dissolves in morning haze, with an orange sun and a few dark rowing boats. Shown at the first independent exhibition in 1874, it prompted the critic Louis Leroy to sneer at the "Impressionists". The name stuck.
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In a black-and-white photo the sun almost disappears: it has nearly the same tonal value as the sky.
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