Tag: Monet

Vase de fleurs (1881)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Vase de fleurs (Vase of Flowers) 1881 Oil on canvas, 100.4 x 81.8 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In the early 1880s, Claude Monet focused on painting ambitious floral still lifes. This lavish bouquet of mallows (a wild…

Antibes (1888)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Antibes 1888 Oil on canvas, 65.5 x 92.4 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In early 1888, Claude Monet travelled to the south of France where he spent several months capturing the intense colours and atmosphere of the Mediterranean.…

Bords de la Seine à Argenteuil (1874)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Bords de la Seine à Argenteuil (Banks of the Seine at Argenteuil) 1874 Oil on canvas, 62.3 x 103 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This work is one of Édouard Manet’s most vivid experiments in painting outdoors, inspired…

Hyde Park, London (c.1871)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Hyde Park, London c.1871 Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 74 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence See also: • London (England)

Le Pont japonais, Giverny (1895)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Pont japonais, Giverny (Japanese Footbridge, Giverny) 1895 Oil on canvas, 78.7 × 97.8 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia This canvas—one of Claude Monet’s first attempts to capture his garden in paint—derives its composition and vivid hues from the…

Camille au métier (1875)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Camille au métier (Madame Monet Embroidering) 1875 Oil on canvas, 65.5 × 56 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Though Monet preferred painting in the open air, for this work he brought his easel indoors to capture his first wife, Camille…

Fille avec chien (1873)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Fille avec chien (Girl with Dog) 1873 Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 45.7 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Painted a year before the first impressionist exhibition in Paris, this canvas has all the characteristics that would become associated with the…

Sainte-Adresse (1867)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Sainte-Adresse 1867 Oil on canvas, 57 × 80 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In June 1867, at the urging of his father, Claude Monet went to Sainte-Adresse, a popular resort town on the Normandy coast, for an extended…

Le Service à thé (1872)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Service à thé (Still Life, Tea Service) 1872 Oil on canvas, 53.34 × 72.71 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Although he is primarily known for his landscapes, Claude Monet was also a prodigious still-life painter, especially during…

Le Palais Ducal vu de Saint-Georges Majeur (1908)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Palais Ducal vu de Saint-Georges Majeur (The Palazzo Ducale, Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore) 1908 Oil on canvas, 65 x 100.5 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York Claude Monet’s preponderant role in the development of Impressionism tends to overshadow…