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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