Tag: France

Argenteuil (c.1872)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Argenteuil c.1872 Oil on canvas, 50.4 x 65.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Argenteuil (France)

Vue de Vétheuil (1880)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Vue de Vétheuil (View of Vétheuil) 1880 Oil on canvas, 80 x 60.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The footpath winding through the poppy field at bottom right points the way toward the church tower…

Vétheuil en été (1880)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Vétheuil en été (Vétheuil in Summer) 1880 Oil on canvas, 60 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this view of Vétheuil, seen from the opposite bank of the Seine, the flicker of individual…

La Seine à Vétheuil (1880)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Seine à Vétheuil (The Seine at Vétheuil) 1880 Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 100.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Monet experimented with a variety of brushstrokes and simplified, horizontal forms in order to evoke…

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…