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Île aux Orties près de Vernon (1897)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Île aux Orties près de Vernon (Île aux Orties near Vernon) 1897 Oil on canvas, 73.3 x 92.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Île aux Orties (Island of Nettles) is situated not far from…

Île aux Fleurs près de Vétheuil (1880)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Île aux Fleurs près de Vétheuil (Île aux Fleurs near Vétheuil) 1880 Oil on canvas, 66 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is one of two views of the Île aux Fleurs, an…

Champs de coquelicots près d’Argenteuil (1875)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Champs de coquelicots près d’Argenteuil (Poppy Fields near Argenteuil) 1875 Oil on canvas, 54 x 73.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work is one of four similar views of the plain of Gennevilliers, just…

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…