Claude Monet - Glaçons, environs de Bennecourt, 1893

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Claude Monet

1840 - 1926

Glaçons, environs de Bennecourt


signed Claude Monet and dated 93 (lower right)

oil on canvas

40.5 by 54cm., 15⅞ by 21¼in.

Painted in 1893


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