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Claude Monet was masterful painter of light and atmosphere whose observations viewed at various times of the day, were captured in sequences of paintings.
View of Vernon (1886) by Claude Monet Chrysler Museum of Art. 'From 1883 until his death in 1926, the Impressionist Claude Monet lived in Giverny, where he painted his Kaystacks series and...
Date: 1899. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 36 1/2 x 29 in. (92.7 x 73.7 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929. Accession Number: 29.100.113. Open Access at The Met: Animating Artworks in the Collection.
Oscar-Claude Monet (UK: / ˈ m ɒ n eɪ /, US: / m oʊ ˈ n eɪ, m ə ˈ-/, French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.
Artwork Details. Overview. Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings. Provenance. Exhibition History. References. Notes. Loan Restrictions. Title: Water Lilies. Artist: Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny) Date: 1919. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 39 3/4 x 78 3/4 in. (101 x 200 cm) Classification: Paintings.
After many years of picturing the pond at Giverny, Monet now envisioned an ensemble that he referred to as his “Grande Décoration”: mural-sized paintings of “water, water-lilies, plants, spread over a huge surface.” 2. Each of these elements is present in the monumental Water Lilies (1914–26).
You've viewed 6 of 17 paintings. See more. Born in Paris, the son of a grocer, Monet grew up in Le Havre. Contact with Eugène Boudin in about 1856 introduced Monet to painting from nature. He was in Paris in 1859 and three years later he entered the studio of Charles Gleyre, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Frédéric Bazille.
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