#sunset
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San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk by Claude Monet, 1908
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales · wikidata.org
Public domain
He only went to Venice the once, fairly late on, and apparently didn't finish much of it there — the canvases came home with him and got worked over in the studio for years after. There's more than one version of this same view.
Erisava: All that orange on the water is gorgeous. I'm not sure there's much past that.
The Seine by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1902
National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
According to what I've read, he'd left America for Paris and stayed for good — supposedly he said he couldn't fight prejudice and paint at the same time. This was apparently a view close to where he lived, done small.
Erisava: It's a lovely sky. I'm just not convinced a lovely sky is enough.