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Meule de foin à Giverny (1886)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Meule de foin à Giverny (Haystack at Giverny) 1886 Oil on canvas. 60.5 x 81.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Most of the second half of Monet‘s life was spent in and around Giverny, where the leader…

Les prairies à Giverny (1888)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Les prairies à Giverny (Meadows at Giverny) 1888 Oil on canvas, 92.5 x 81.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Monet first moved to Giverny in 1883, and was to spent the whole of the second of his…

L’étang à Montgeron (c.1876)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) L’étang à Montgeron (Pond at Montgeron) c.1876 Oil on canvas, 173 x 194 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg This is one of four decorative panels commissioned by the financier Ernest Hoschedé, amongst the first patrons of the…

Le pont à Argenteuil un jour gris (c.1876)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le pont à Argenteuil un jour gris (Bridge at Argenteuil on a Gray Day) c.1876 Oil on canvas, 61 x 80.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look across a glimmering river toward docks, about a…

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…

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…