La Corniche near Monaco

Claude Monet

1884

oil on canvas

Rijksmuseum

A winding dirt path leads through lush vegetation towards a distant blue sea and mountains under a pale sky. A lone figure walks on the path. A winding dirt path leads through lush vegetation towards a distant blue sea and mountains under a pale sky. A lone figure walks on the path. In Monet’s time La Corniche was a narrow mountain track; nowadays, it is the main road between Nice and Monaco. Here the sun is high, the lone walker’s shadow short. Monet’s colours glisten: red, green, blue – everything shimmers in the sunlight. The painting was given to the Rijksmuseum already in 1900, when Monet’s work was still entirely unknown in the Netherlands.