The Coalmen

Les Déchargeurs de charbon

The Coalmen

Claude Monet · 1875

Musée d'Orsay

Paris, France

About this painting

An unusual subject for Monet: laborers unloading coal barges on the Seine near Asnières, painted with the same modern-life focus as his contemporaries Degas and Zola.

Painting Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

54 × 66 cm (21.3 × 26 in)

Painted at

Argenteuil, France

Current location

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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