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"The horror, the horror was for love. The things we do for love like this are ugly, mad, full of sweat and regret. This love burns you and maims you and twists you inside out. It is a monstrous love and it makes monsters of us all"

Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire, England

John Collier (English, 1850-1934)

Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist), Claude Monet, 1897, Art Institute of Chicago: European Painting and Sculpture

Claude Monet painted the 18 works in his Mornings on the Seine series from a flat-bottomed boat anchored to the riverbank where the Epte River flows into the Seine. There, as the light changed from dawn to day, he worked on one canvas after another. To keep them in order, he numbered them, placed them in grooves built into the boat, and had the gardener whom he enlisted as his assistant hand them to him. Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection Size: 89.9 × 92.7 cm (35 3/8 × 36 ½ in.) Medium: Oil on canvas