3472140 Ice Floes, 1893 (oil on canvas) by Monet, Claude (1840-1926); 66x100.3 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: The prolonged freeze and heavy snowfalls in the winter of 1892??3 inspired Monet to capture their effects on the Seine in a series of paintings for which he chose a vantage point not far from his home in Giverny. The river froze in mid-January but began to thaw on the 23rd ); French, out of copyright.