The Grand Dock at Le Havre

The Grand Dock at Le Havre painting was created in 1872 by a French painter Claude Monet, in Impressionism style. The original size of the painting is 61x81cm. The painting was painted in oil painting on canvas. This painting is currently collected in Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. From the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia: In 1874, Monet travelled to his native Havre. The purpose of the trip was to prepare new works for the forthcoming exhibition. The present picture is one of the four paintings produced during his stay in Havre. Not without prompting from Japanese woodcuts, Monet "carved" his compositional structure. With this forest of masts and smokestacks, and the piles of barrels and bales of goods in the foreground, he conveys the sense of an extremely busy port, with ships departing for the ends of the earth as well as for Caen, the main city of the neighbouring département of Calvados. The juxtaposition of tall smokestacks of the ships in front with the m