Tag: landscape

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…

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…

Les quatre arbres (1891)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Les quatre arbres (The Four Trees) 1891 Oil on canvas, 81.9 x 81.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York During summer and fall 1891 Monet painted a series of views of poplars along the Epte River,…

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…

Pont sur un étang de nymphéas (1899)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Pont sur un étang de nymphéas (Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies) 1899 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 73.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1893, Monet, a passionate horticulturist, purchased land with a…