Impression, Sunrise ☰ Monet ☱ Canvas Add a Float Frame:Silver the most expensive blue pigment

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pedestrians on a cobblestone street illuminated by a nearby shop

is surrounded by cartographic items: a globe

The title Les Poseuses (The Posers) may refer more to the critics than to the models who appear to be preparing

The painting depicts the sky just before sunrise over an imaginary village

Impression, Sunrise ☰ Monet ☱ Canvas Add a Float Frame:Silver the most expensive blue pigmentImpression, Sunrise (1872, Impression, soleil levant) by Claude Monet is credited with inspiring the name of the Impressionist movement. It depicts the industrialization of the port at Monet's hometown of Le Havre. The port is seen at sunrise, with two small rowboats in the foreground against a misty background of clipper ships, pack boats and steamships, with tall masts and chimneys silhouetted against the sky. The rising sun casts a red reflection