Ice Floes
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
Original Dimensions: 26" x 39 1/2"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1893) "The prolonged freeze and heavy snowfalls in the winter of 1892–93 inspired Monet to capture their effects on the Seine in a series of paintings for which he chose a vantage point not far from his home in Giverny. The river had frozen in mid-January but began to thaw on the 23rd; the following day, in a letter to his dealer, Durand-Ruel, Monet lamented that "the thaw came too soon for me . . . the results—just four or five canvases and they are far from complete." By the end of February, however, he had finished more than a dozen paintings, including this view of the melting ice floes." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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