Yes, 'Morning on the Seine in good weather' (Matin sur la Seine, le beau temps) of 1897 by Claude Monet hangs in the White House. It is one of the few non-American paintings in the collection. read more
Yes, ‘Morning on the Seine in good weather’ (Matin sur la Seine, le beau temps) of 1897 by Claude Monet hangs in the White House. It is one of the few non-American paintings in the collection. I’m not sure why Ted Nugent singled out this particular painting, but one suspects that Monet is the only painter he has ever heard of, and he was therefore naively impressed. read more
White paint has nothing to do with covering the burning of the house by the British in 1814, although every schoolchild is likely to have heard the story that way. The building was first made white with lime-based whitewash in 1798, when its walls were finished, simply as a means of protecting the porous stone from freezing. read more