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Bag illustrated with a detail from the work by Claude Monet (1840-1926), Sunset on the Seine at Lavacourt, Winter Effect, 1880.

Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Sunset on the Seine at Lavacourt, Winter Effect (details), 1880
Oil on canvas / H. 101,5 ; W. 150 cm
Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris
Photo CCØ Paris Musées / Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, Petit Palais

Lavacourt is a village in the Paris area, located on the left bank of the Seine, opposite the village of Vétheuil where Monet was based in September 1878. The winter of 1879 was particularly harsh.
Paris and the surrounding area were paralysed by snow and all transport stopped. Despite the intense cold, Monet painted twenty or so paintings during the first months of 1880, observing the ice on the Seine slowly thawing.