Study of Rocks; Creuse: 'Le Bloc' is an 1889 painting by Claude Monet.
[1] The painting was reproduced in a copy by the British artist Gerald Kelly in 1939.
[4] The dramatist and performer Noël Coward was also an amateur artist and arranged a visit to Clarence House specially to see Study of Rocks.
[5] The painting depicts a hillside covered with rocks and crags; a blue sky with clouds hangs above the scene, with branches on the left hand side against the sky.
[3] The location of the painting is a rocky outcrop that rises above the confluence of two sources of the river Creuse.