Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) was a founder of French impressionist movement, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to outdoor landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise.
In 1871 and 1874, the famous French impressionist painter visited Amsterdam. He was impressed by the clouds and the grey light, but was not happy with his paintings, which did not "catch" the Amsterdam light. Monet never exposed these works, which are still not very well-known; not even their names are recorded. Nor do we know much about his stay: except for a photograph and a couple of letters.
This painting, in a private collection, is interesting because it shows how the artist was experimenting: he had prepared the canvas by painting it grey, which he simply left as it was, in the top right corner.
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