Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Monet visited Venice just once, in the fall of 1908. By then, Venice was already a tourist destination and a favorite subject of countless artists. Monet’s paintings of Venice stand out for their eerily empty cityscapes seen through the city’s shimmering, hazy atmosphere. Many of the sights Monet painted can still be found in Venice today.

Come see Monet and Venice at the de Young museum in San Francisco: famsf.org/exhibitions/monet-venice?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23659847943&gbraid=0AAAAACdt5ITRJBtsMcnqSshtIzLVLm8c3&gclid=CjwKCAjw8uTQBhAdEiwAVvtJynaIV5TTJ-ZaLLQdnAAmydbbYL11gEZ0biAdumxDqAF6_awnUv7axRoCxAEQAvD_BwE