Artist: Claude Monet (1840 – 1926)
Title: Rochers be Belle-lle (Rocks at Belle Isle)
Medium: Hand pulled copper plate etching and drypoint , printed in Bistre ink, on cream laid paper after the original oil on canvas by Auguste Marie Lauzet (1865 – 1898) .
Edition: Limited to only 50 examples.
Dimensions: Plate size 4 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 14 3/4 x 15 7/8 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Claude Monet (1840 – 1926) was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term “Impressionism” is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.