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Monet
View Near Rouelles

1858

Oil on canvas

Marunuma Art Park

The painter Eugène Boudin took his young protégé Oscar-Claude Monet to the village of Rouelles in 1858. The resulting canvas is the first painting Monet ever presented to the public, in an exhibition in his home city, Le Havre, later that year. Its skill far exceeds expectations for the earliest documented work by any painter and demonstrates how much the teenage Monet was able to learn from Boudin. 

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Monet: The Early Years is organized by the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worthin collaboration with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Additional support is provided by major grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts and the Leo Potishman Foundation, JP Morgan Chase, Trustee.

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