Impressionist painter Claude Monet’s “Matinée sur la Seine, effet de brume,” or “Morning on the Seine, fog effect,” is now on display at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art until June 14.

“Morning on the Seine, fog effect” is part of a 21-painting series portraying the Seine River. Monet’s intention was to capture the changing light throughout different times of day and during the seasons — similar to his lily pond and haystack paintings — on the river near his home in Giverny, France.

Monet used a flat-bottomed boat as his painting studio and woke up at 3:30 each morning to be on the river before sunrise. He began the painting in 1896, but due to weather delays it took Monet nearly a year to finish the painting. In June 1898, the series of paintings was on exhibit at Galerie Georges Petit in Paris.

Monet’s painting is part of the museum’s Masterworks on Loan Program, which borrows internationally recognized artwork from private collections around the world, and is on display in the MacKinnon Gallery of European Art.

Other European artists whose paintings are currently on display include Roy Lichtenstein, Helen Frankenthaler, Josef Albers, Gerhard Richter, Joaquin Sorolla and Amedeo Modigliani. The museum’s website has a complete listing of European artworks on display. 

—By Corinne Boyer, Public Affairs Communications intern