impression, soleil couchant

 

As the sunset the day before had been magnificent [thanks to the current air pollution!], I attempted to catch it from a nice spot and went to the top of the nearby hill. The particles were alas (!) not so numerous that evening and so I only got this standard view of the sun going down. Incidentally, I had read a few days earlier in the plane from Vienna that the time and date when Monet’s Impression, Soleil Levant was painted had been identified by a U.S. astronomer as 7h35 on the 13th of Novembre 1872. In Le Havre, Normandy. An exhibit in the nearby Musée Marmottan retraces this quest…