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In 1878 Claude Monet moved to Vetheuil, a quiet town on the Seine near Vernon northwest of Paris. The move changed the range of his subject matter from modem industrial and suburban life to the landscapes and seascapes of his new environs and of nearby Normandy, where be had grown up. In 1883, with the advent of success, he was able to acquire a house in Normandy--at Givemy
The National Gallery of Scotland has mounted two major Monet exhibitions in the past. This month it opens a third, entitled Monet: The Seine and the Sea--Vetheuil and Normandy 1878--1 883, which may be seen until October 26. The exhibition, sponsored by the Royal Bank of Scotland, comprises some eighty landscape paintings dating from Monet's years in Vetheuil and Normandy In addition, there are a group of portraits and still lifes painted during the same period and a small selection of paintings by French landscape painters whom Monet admired, such as Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Monet in Edinburgh. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)