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Banquises (1893)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Banquises (Ice Floes) 1893 Oil on canvas, 66 x 100.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The prolonged freeze and heavy snowfalls in the winter of 1892–93 inspired Monet to capture their effects on the Seine…

La vague verte (1866-1867)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La vague verte (The Green Wave) c.1866–1867 Oil on canvas, 48.6 x 64.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When this early seascape debuted at the 1879 Impressionist exhibition, a critic remarked that it was “directly…

Printemps, arbres fruitiers en fleurs (1873)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Printemps, arbres fruitiers en fleurs (Spring, Fruit Trees in Bloom) 1873 Oil on canvas, 62.2 x 100.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Monet made this work in the vicinity of his home in Argenteuil, a…

Cabine de surveillance des douaniers (1882)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Cabine de surveillance des douaniers (Cabin of the Customs Watch) 1882 Oil on canvas, 61 x 81.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Of the fourteen versions of this motif painted at Pourville in 1882, this…

Femme à l’ombrelle tournée vers la droite (1886)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Essai de figure en plein-air: Femme à l’ombrelle tournée vers la droite (Woman with a Parasol) 1886 Oil on canvas, 130.5 × 89.3 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Femme à l’ombrelle tournée vers la gauche…

Femme à l’ombrelle tournée vers la gauche (1886)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Essai de figure en plein-air: Femme à l’ombrelle tournée vers la gauche (Woman with a Parasol) 1886 Oil on canvas, 131 × 88.7 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Femme à l’ombrelle tournée vers la…

Alice Hoschedé au jardin (1881)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Alice Hoschedé au jardin (Alice Hoschedé in the Garden) 1881 Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm Private collection Monet‘s magnificent depiction of his garden at Vétheuil exemplifies the visual splendor of Impressionism at its height. Monet…

La Croix du Breuil (1923)

Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) La Croix du Breuil, rendez-vous de chasse d’Henri IV, Bessines-sur-Gartempe (Haute-Vienne) 1923 Gouache on paper, 36.5 x 46.5 cm Private collection La Croix du Breuil, Bessines-sur-Gartempe. See also: • Bessines-sur-Gartempe (France) | Henri IV, King of France (1553-1610)

Les vendangeurs (1879)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les vendangeurs (The Mussel Harvest) 1879 Oil on canvas, 54.2 x 65.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

Paysage à Vétheuil (c.1890)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Paysage à Vétheuil (Landscape at Vétheuil) c.1890 Oil on canvas, 11.5 x 16.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Vétheuil (France)