“.. but what a pity that I did not come here [in Venice] when I was younger and more adventurous.”

— Claude Monet

Quote in Monet's letter to art-ritic and friend Gustave Geffroy, 1907; as cited in: K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 56
1900 - 1920

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French impressionist painter 1840–1926

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