Impressionism, Iron Architecture ·
chronological order 9
Oil on canvas, 48 × 63 cm, painted by Claude Monet in 1872 from a window
over the harbour at Le Havre, where he had lived since the age of five.
A quick, atmospheric sunrise, close to a sketch, with three fishing
boats coming out of the purple haze and an orange sun on the water. When
it was shown at the rebels’ first exhibition in 1874, the critic Louis
Leroy mocked it and called the group “the Impressionists”. The name
stuck.
