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Rouen Cathedral: Setting Sun (Symphony in Pink and Grey)

Photo credit: Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

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Working from the window of a milliner's shop overlooking its façade, Monet began his series of over 30 views of Rouen Cathedral in February 1892. He returned in February 1893 and completed it at Giverny in 1893–1894. This painting of the cathedral viewed by the light of the setting sun is one of 20 Cathédrales exhibited to immense critical success in Paris in 1895. As a record of the ways in which light transforms the appearance of a motif, the series nears the limits of 'scientific' Impressionism. The 1890s were a decade of nationalist revival in France and Monet's choice of a great French mediaeval monument in the city where Joan of Arc was martyred implies a consciously patriotic purpose. The unusual frame of this painting, with historicising pilasters and the inscription Cl.

Title

Rouen Cathedral: Setting Sun (Symphony in Pink and Grey)

Date

1892–1894

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 100 x W 65 cm

Accession number

NMW A 2482

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Gwendoline Davies, 1951

Work type

Painting

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