Claude Monet - Norway

Monet in Norway, 1895. A grueling two-month trip, partly to visit his stepson Jacques Hoschedé in Christiania, today's Oslo. He arrived overwhelmed. The blinding light, the snowstorms, the frustration. He complained about almost everything. Then he got to work, and came home with 29 paintings. 13 of them are Mount Kolsås, painted from the exact same spot, hour after hour, as the light and snow kept changing. At least 6 show the village of Sandvika. He was hooked on its iron Løkke Bridge, which reminded him of the Japanese bridge he had just built over his pond in Giverny. And 3 show lone red a