Impression, Sunrise, Claude Monet
Claude Monet·Impression, Sunrise·1872·Oil on canvas·Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris↓

Claude Monet French, 1840 – 1926

Impression, Sunrise, 1872

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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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