Oil on canvas. Coastal scene with rock formation and sea.
Dimensions: Image size: 50 x 60.5 cm.
Note: Attributed to Claude Monet, this work reflects the central role the artist played in the development of Impressionism and the transformation of landscape painting into a direct study of light, color, and momentary sensation; Monet's radical approach to capturing the ephemeral qualities of the natural world reshaped modern art and exerted a lasting influence on the evolution of painting, positioning works of this nature as foundational expressions within the canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century modernism.