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Chrysanthèmes (1882)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Chrysanthèmes (Chrysanthemums) 1882 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 81.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York An avid gardener, Monet produced some twenty floral still lifes between 1878 and 1883, garnering both critical and commercial success. This…

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…

Pommes et raisins (1879-1880)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Pommes et raisins (Apples and Grapes) c.1879–1880 Oil on canvas, 67.6 x 89.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is one of three tabletop still lifes depicting a basket of apples and grapes that Monet…

Mademoiselle Sicot (1865)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Mademoiselle Sicot 1865 Oil on canvas, 116 x 89.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from about the knees up, a woman with pale, pink skin and cinnamon-brown hair sits with her hands in her lap…