Tag: Monet

Le Bassin de Londres (1871)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Bassin de Londres (The Pool of London) 1871 Oil on canvas, 48.5 x 74.5 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Monet came to London in 1871 as a refugee from the Franco-Prussian war. This view of the Thames…

San Giorgio Maggiore, crépuscule (1908)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) San Giorgio Maggiore, crépuscule (San Giorgio Maggiore, Twilight) 1908 Oil on canvas, 65.2 x 92.4 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff A view of the monastery island of San Giorgio, painted from the south-eastern end of Venice. On the right…

San Giorgio Maggiore (1908)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) San Giorgio Maggiore 1908 Oil on canvas, 59.2 x 81.2 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Between October and December 1908, Monet and his wife Alice visited Venice, where they stayed on the Grand Canal. This composition depicts the…

Gustave Geffroy

(1855–1926) Geffroy in Art: Bracquemond, Marie (1840-1916) Portrait du critique Gustave Geffroy c.1890 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago     Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Gustave Geffroy 1895–1896 Musée d’Orsay, Paris     Nadar (1820-1910) Gustave Geffroy c.1880 New York Public Library, New York   Born June…

L’église de Vernon (1883)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) L’église de Vernon (The Church at Vernon) 1883 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81.4 cm Private collection “One day, when I happened to be in Vernon, I found the silhouette of the church so remarkable that I absolutely…

Nymphéas (1907)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Nymphéas (Water Lilies) 1907 Oil on canvas, 81 x 92 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford

La plage de Trouville (1870)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La plage de Trouville (The Beach at Trouville) 1870 Oil on canvas, 54 x 64.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Curatorial Narrative: Monet spent the summer of 1870 at Trouville, the popular French resort along the English Channel. This…

L’Île aux Orties, Giverny (1897)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) L’Île aux Orties, Giverny (The Seine at Giverny) 1897 Oil on canvas Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Île aux Orties près de Vernon 1897 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York     See also: • Île…

Rochers à Belle-Île, Port-Domois (1886)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Rochers à Belle-Île, Port-Domois (Rocks at Belle-Île, Port-Domois) 1886 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.8 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Port-Domois, Belle-Isle 1887 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven     See also: • Belle-Île-en-Mer (France)