Detail of Cap d'Antibes, Mistral by Monet in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Cap d'Antibes, Mistral
1888
Claude Monet, French, 1840–1926

Dimensions: 66.0 x 81.3 cm (26 x 32 in.)

Medium or Technique: Oil on canvas

Classification: Paintings
Type: Landscape - Seascape

Accession Number: 42.542

As Monet grew older, his paintings became simpler. He began to focus on a single, isolated motif, the better to record the changes in color and light wrought on it by different times of day and fluctuations in weather. "Cap d'Antibes, Mistral" is one of three paintings of these very same trees that Monet made during his four-month sojourn in Antibes, from January through May 1888.

Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/cap-d-antibes-mistral-32852