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| Keywords: Claude Monet, Fishing Boats Leaving the Harbor, Le Havre.jpg Artwork Q2891152 creator Claude Monet 1874 Oil canvas cm 60 101 Private collection object history credit line Claude Monet 74 lower left signature Here Monet has used brush strokes to construct the painting horizontal strokes used to illustrate the movement and light coming off the water Vertical strokes to depict the taller objects i the painting for example the boats and the people he never mixes the two strokes also he uses the occasional complementary colour in the boats and background to bring the painting alive against the cold blues This is a scene of contemporary people a common theame for the impressionists as at the time they were rejected from the art establishment forcing them to exhibit as their own group The conventional 'good' art at the time was featuring a famous or important person and centred around that person so the impressionist were very experimental accession number source PD-old-auto 1926 Oil paintings of ports and harbours Fishing boats in Seine-Maritime Le Havre by Claude Monet Paintings by Claude Monet - year of production missing 1874 paintings 19th-century oil paintings 19th-century paintings in France Paintings of sailboats Fishing boats in art Fishing ships of France | ||||
