But for decades before then, the oil painting — one of nearly 250 painted at Monet’s home in Giverny, France — sat idle on the dining room wall of Michel Monet, the artist’s sole living son.

He ended up painting the image he was obsessed with in Camille on Her Deathbed, an artwork that was never sold or displayed.

Following on from the display of a Constable in Jarrow in 2023 and last year's loan of a famous Turner oil to Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle, a painting by Impressionist master Claude Monet next ...