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 Claude Monet
France, 1840–1926
The Breakup of the Ice (La Débâcle or Les Glaçons), 1880
Oil on canvas
Acquired through the generosity of Russell B. Stearns (LS&A, 1916), and his wife Andrée B. Stearns, Dedham, Massachusetts, 1976/2.134
Thomas H. and Polly W. Bredt Gallery
18th- and 19th-Century European and American painting and sculpture
Stroll the second floor balcony gallery overlooking the Apse and take in a pleasing procession of some of the Museum’s most beloved and iconic works, including Claude Monet’s La Débacle (The Breakup of the Ice), John MacNeill Whistler’s Sea and Rain, and Spring Landscape by Arthur Wesley Dow. Natural light returns to the heart of the
Museum for the first time in over half a century through the reopened and restored skylights.
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