Bordighera by Claude Monet Jigsaw Puzzle

Early in 1884, Claude Monet traveled to Bordighera, a town on the Italian Riviera, close to the French border. This working visit of three weeks turned into nearly three months. In a letter to the sculptor Auguste Rodin he described his efforts to translate the brilliant Mediterranean light into paint. Monet declared he was "fencing, wrestling, with the sun." In other letters, he complained of the impossibility of finding a motif due to the abundant vegetation. In this sun-drenched composition painted from a hilltop vantage point, the sea is barely visible through the interlaced trunks of local pine trees. The oil on canvas original painting is part of the Potter Palmer Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. It has a CC0 public domain designation.