The Valley of the Nervia

1884 painting by Claude Monet
The Valley of the Nervia
ArtistClaude Monet
Year1884
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions66 cm × 81.3 cm (26 in × 32.0 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Valley of the Nervia is a late 19th-century painting by French artist Claude Monet. The work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]

Description

The Valley of the Nervia depicts the mountains of the Italian Riviera, where Monet had spent several months in 1884.[1]

The composition comprises three horizontal bands of colour, an upper white band of snow-capped mountains, a green band of foothills and the lower beige foreground in which the village of Camporosso nestles under the foothills on the banks of the River Nervia. [2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "The Valley of the Nervia". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
  2. ^ "Valley of the Nervia 1884". Retrieved 19 December 2019.
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