The church of San Giorgio Maggiore stands as a dark silhouette on its island at the left, its tall bell tower and dome cut out against a sky that burns orange, gold and pink and cools to blue at the top. The lagoon repeats the sunset in broken horizontal strokes of orange, violet and blue. In the haze at the right the museum points out the faint dome of Santa Maria della Salute and the mouth of the Grand Canal, and the signature at lower right reads "Claude Monet 1908." Claude Monet painted the island from the south-eastern end of Venice in 1908.

Amgueddfa Cymru, Museum Wales, says that every evening in late November that year he and his wife took gondola trips to enjoy "these splendid sunsets which are unique in the world," though he claimed Venice was too beautiful to paint. He painted this view as a series. Gwendoline Davies bought the canvas in 1912, directly from Monet's exhibition of his Venice paintings in Paris, and it came to the museum by bequest in 1952. The museum notes it may look familiar to fans of the 1999 film The Thomas Crown Affair.

It is in the National Museum Cardiff in Cardiff.