The Doge's Palace (Le Palais ducal)
- Artist: Claude Monet, French, 1840-1926
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Place Made: Europe
- Dates: 1908
- Dimensions: 32 x 39 in. (81.3 x 99.1cm) Frame: 40 1/4 x 48 x 4 1/2 in. (102.2 x 121.9 x 11.4 cm)
- Signature: Signed and dated lower right: "Claude Monet 1908"
- Collections: European Art
- Museum Location:
This item is on view in Beaux-Arts Court, South, 3rd Floor - Accession Number: 20.634
- Credit Line: Gift of A. Augustus Healy
- Image: Overall, 20.634_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
Daunted by Venice’s innumerable picturesque views and art-historical legacy, Monet delayed visiting the city until 1908. Once there, he explored familiar artistic concerns—reflection, atmosphere, and structure— through the city’s fundamental visual elements: its water, light, and architecture. To capture the Doge’s Palace, one of Venice’s most notable monuments, Monet positioned himself across an expanse of water, in a gondola. Despite the horizontal format of the canvas, and of the palace itself, the painter accentuated the vertical through reflection, dissolving the solid structure into a shimmer of pink, green, and yellow. Although Monet spent several sessions painting directly in front of his subject, he reworked this canvas in his Giverny studio in preparation for a 1912 exhibition.
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