New Scientific Analysis on Claude Monet’s The Luncheon Possibly Reveals a Self-Portrait in an Earlier Composition
To mark the 100th anniversary of Claude Monet’s death in 1926, the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay are celebrating his work with an exhibition apiece, “Claude Monet, Painting Time” and “I Spend My Life Painting,” respectively. The Orsay’s display includes five works that have recently undergone technical examination with several new revelations about the father of Impressionism’s practice.The most important of these n