The lower part is filled with the rippling waters of the Venetian lagoon and the reflection of the buildings.
#San giorgio maggiore at dusk 1908 windows#
The upper part depicts the pink and white diamond patterned stonework of the Venetian Gothic palace walls pierced by arched windows with colonnaded arcades on the lower two floors, the blue sky above, the Lion of Venice column in the Piazzetta di San Marco to the left, and Ponte della Paglia and the New Prison ( Prigioni Nuove) building to the right. It is roughly divided into two horizontal zones. The Impressionist work is painted with dappled brushstrokes in a bright palette of pinks, yellows and blues, bathed in a warm light. They are catalogued by Wildenstein as W1742 to W1744.
Klapper in the US, a second in the Brooklyn Museum, and a third in a private collection of the Goeritz family in the UK from the 1920s until it was sold at Sotheby's in February 2019. The title Le Palais Ducal generally refers to three similar paintings dominated by the palace itself, painted from a boat moored in the lagoon: one in the collection of Adele and Herbert J. Monet painted the Doge's Palace from several viewpoints during his three-month sojourn in Venice, from October to December 1908. Le Palais Ducal or The Doge's Palace is the name given to various oil paintings which depict the Doge's Palace (in Italian, "Palazzo Ducale", translated to French as "Palais Ducal") made by Claude Monet during a visit to Venice in 1908.
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