ID: 700008600 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008600	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Bordighera (painting (visual work); Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926); 1884)

Note: Early in 1884, Claude Monet traveled to Bordighera, a town on the Italian Riviera, close to the border between Italy and France, for a working visit of three weeks that turned into nearly three months. In a letter to the sculptor Auguste Rodin describing his efforts to translate into paint the brilliant Mediterranean light, Monet declared he was "fencing, wrestling, with the sun." In other letters, he complained of the impossibility of finding a motif due to the abundant vegetation. In this sun-drenched composition painted from a hilltop vantage point, the sea is barely visible through the interlaced trunks of local pine trees.

Titles:

Bordighera (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

European art

Creation Date: 1884

Creator Display:

Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926) [preferred,VP]

painter Monet, Claude (French painter, 1840-1926) [500019484]

Locations:

Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, United States) [500304669] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1922.426

Credit Line: Potter Palmer Collection

Address Note: Gallery 240

Display Materials: oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: 25 5/8 x 31 13/16 in. (65 x 80.8 cm)

General Subject:

landscapes (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Bordighera [1043556]
	.....(Imperia province (province), Liguria (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

	trees (woody plants) [300132410]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Plantae (kingdom), woody plants) (AAT)

Inscriptions: inscribed, lower left: Claude Monet 84

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Bordighera	........ [VP]
	........ Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access [online] (2003-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access [online] (2003-)