吉维尼的小船

By 1887 Monet had settled at Giverny with Alice Hoschede and a large blended household of children from both their families. The garden and the little river Epte at the foot of it became his subjects for years. Here three of Alice's daughters, Germaine, Suzanne and Blanche, sit in a flat-bottomed boat the family called the Norwegian, drifting near the bank. Monet keeps their faces almost blank and gives most of his attention to the water, laid down in long green and lilac strokes that dissolve the reflections. Suzanne, seated at the centre, was the model Monet turned to most often in these years.