During the winter of 1878, Monet moved to the cold village of Vétheuil further down the Seine from Argenteuil. Over the course of the four years that he lived in this region Monet lost his wife in 1879 and he had to support the family of his bankrupt friend Ernest Hoschedé. We can imagine that these were the most difficult days of his life. Monet created a series of works depicting the frozen Seine during these years (1879-80) "Foggy Ice", "Flowing Ice", and"Thaw". With the beginning of the 1880s, he once again turned to the brighter palette visible in this work. While Monet did not return to his earlier regatta scenes or decorative landscapes of elegantly dressed people strolling along the river banks, his brush strokes were more freely laid upon the composition in these later works, and his individuality is visible in the palette and compositions he chose in this new period. This work was painted in the small village of La Roche-Guyon, down river a bit from Vétheuil. Another work painted from the same spot depicts the scene facing back toward Vétheuil. (Philips Collection, Washington.) (Source: Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2009, cat. no.72)
- Title: Road of La Roche-Guyon
- Creator Lifespan: 1840 - 1926
- Creator Nationality: French
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Giverny
- Creator Birth Place: Paris
- Date Created: 1880
- Location Created: France
- Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings: Signed and dated lower left: Claude Monet 1880
- Provenance: Georges Petit, Paris, c. 1882; Roux; Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1919; Hermann, 1919; Kojiro Matsukata; Sequestered by the French Government, 1944; Returned to Japan, 1959.
- Physical Dimensions: w730 x h605 mm
- Painter: Claude Monet
- Object title (Japanese): ラ・ロシュ=ギュイヨンの道
- Object notes (Japanese): 1878年の冬、モネはアルジャントゥイユから、更にセーヌを下った寒村、ヴェトゥイユへ居を移した。この地で過ごした4年間は、妻カミーユを失い（1879年）、破産した友人のエルンスト・オシュデ一家を養わねばならず、モネにとって最も苦しい日々であったと想像される。凍てついたセーヌ河の寒々とした景色を描いた「霧氷」、「流氷」、「解氷」などの連作を制作したのもこの頃である（1879-80年）。しかしながら、80年代に入るとともに、この作品にみられるように画面は次第に明るい雰囲気をとり戻し始める。そしてもはや、アルジャントゥイユ時代のようにレガッタや川辺の散歩道を歩く着飾った人々などを配した華やかな風景が描かれることはなかったが、画面に置かれた筆触はより自由で大胆になり、色彩も画面の中で自律的な個性を帯びてくる。この作品に描かれているのは、ヴェトゥイユから僅かにセーヌ河を下った所にあるラ・ロシュ=ギュイヨンという小さな村であるが、同じ場所に立って、逆にヴェトゥイユの村に向かって描いた絵もある（ワシントン、フィリップス・コレクション）。（出典: 国立西洋美術館名作選. 東京, 国立西洋美術館, 2006. cat. no. 72）
- Artist Name (Japanese): モネ、クロード
- Type: Paintings
- Rights: Matsukata Collection, http://www.nmwa.go.jp/en/information/privacy.html
- Medium: Oil on canvas
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