L’Escalier

Deeply inspired by plein air techniques, Claude Monet moved to the small village of Vétheuil in 1878, where he experienced a decisive moment of reassessing his personal and professional life, and it was in this year that he painted L’ Escalier. Instead of depicting scenes of Parisian urban life, Monet shifted his focus onto capturing the transience of nature, as he did in L’ Escalier. The painting demonstrates a key revolutionary technique that profoundly changed Monet’s paintings, laying the groundwork for his later major works.