Oscar-Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the term “Impressionism” is derived from the title of his painting Impression, “Soleil Levant” or “Impression, Sunrise,” which was exhibited in 1874.
Monet adopted a method of painting in which he painted the same scene many times to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons.
Monet is known for having produced a series of paintings, all versions of the same subject and perspective. Examples include his series of the “Valley of the Creuse” series and his famous series of “Haystacks” and “Water Lilies” paintings.
From 1883 Monet lived in Giverny, where at his home, he developed a garden landscape that included the lily ponds that would become the subjects of his best-known works.
In 1899 he began painting the water lilies, first with a Japanese bridge as a central feature, and later in the series of large-scale paintings, with the water lilies as the main feature. This series occupied him for the last 20 years of his life.
A Virtual Tour of Claude Monet
- Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond
- Water Lilies (Honolulu Museum of Art)
- Farmyard in Normandy
- The Basin at Argenteuil
- A Cart on the Snowy Road at Honfleur
- Water Lilies, (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo)
- Camille Monet on a Bench
- The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog) – (MET)
- “Houses of Parliament, London” (Art Institute of Chicago)
- “The Houses of Parliament, Sunset” (National Gallery of Art, DC)
- London, Houses of Parliament. The Sun Shining through the Fog
- “Seagulls, the River Thames and the Houses of Parliament” (Pushkin Museum)
- Haystacks at Scottish National Gallery
- Stacks of Wheat (End of Day, Autumn) at Art Institute of Chicago
- Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer) at Art Institute of Chicago
- “Meules, milieu du jour” (National Gallery of Australia)
- “Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning” (Getty Museum)
- Garden at Sainte-Adresse
- Poppy Field in a Hollow near Giverny
- The Gare St-Lazare (The National Gallery, London)
- “La Gare Saint-Lazare” (Musée d’Orsay)
- “Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare” by Claude Monet (Art Institute of Chicago)
- Le Pont de Argenteuil (The Argenteuil Bridge)
- Impression, Sunrise
- Japanese Bridge Paintings by Claude Monet – Musée Marmottan Monet
- Water Lilies at the Musée Marmottan Monet
- Gardens at Giverny Paintings at the Musée Marmottan Monet
- Weeping Willow Series by Claude Monet
- La Grenouillère
- Bathers at La Grenouillère
- Waterloo Bridge Series
- La Japonaise
- Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son
- The Doge’s Palace – Le Palais Ducal
Highlights Tour of Claude Monet
Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond
“Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond” by Claude Monet is a monumental triptych portraying a water-lily pond, from Monet’s garden in Giverny, with the sky and clouds reflecting off the lily lake.
Monet aimed to give: “the illusion of an endless whole, of water without horizon or bank.”
Water Lilies (Honolulu Museum of Art)
In “Water Lilies,” Claude Monet depicts his water-lily pond, from his garden in Giverny.
Monet captured the continually changing qualities of light, color, water, sky, and lilies by dissolving all the elements in what he expressed as: “the refuge of peaceful meditation in the center of a flowering aquarium.”
Farmyard in Normandy
“Farmyard in Normandy” by Claude Monet is one of his very early paintings. Monet produced a surprisingly small number of pictures during his early years as an artist.
By studying the masters of earlier generations, Monet learned to start with a quick sketch and then complete the painting with paint patches and dabs to create a complete piece that captured the scene. This painting was made when he was twenty-three at the start of his career.
The Basin at Argenteuil
“The Basin at Argenteuil” by Claude Monet was painted during the period when he lived in Argenteuil, from December 1871 until 1878. Monet painted outdoors, and he would set up his easel out in the countryside or his garden.
He would then carefully reworked the details of his canvases in his studio.
A Cart on the Snowy Road at Honfleur
“A Cart on the Snowy Road at Honfleur” by Claude Monet depicts a cart on the snowy road at Honfleur, in northern France’s Normandy region.
This painting illustrates how Monet was influenced by Japanese prints and how he integrated what he had learned from the study of Japanese art into this scene. Claude Monet realized that painting could most effectively evoke the required atmosphere if it relied on the viewer’s ability to interpret basic signs from their relationships to the whole picture.
Water Lilies, (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo)
“Water Lilies” by Claude Monet portrays the water-lily pond, from Monet’s garden in Giverny, with the sky and sun reflecting off the lily pond.
Monet attempted to capture the continually changing qualities of light, color, water, sky, and lilies by dissolving all the elements in: “the refuge of a peaceful meditation in the center of a flowering aquarium.”
Camille Monet on a Bench
“Camille Monet on a Garden Bench” by Claude Monet is an impressionist painting showing Monet’s first wife, Camille Doncieux (1847-1879), whom he depicted in many of his paintings.
The garden is in the Parisian suburb of Argenteuil, which was associated with the house where Monet, his wife, and young son Jean had lived since 1871. T
his garden, together with Camille, appears in many Monet’s paintings depicting the pleasures of country life. However, this picture is invested with a more gloomy mood, because it was painted shortly after Camille received the news that her father had died.
In her visible hand, she holds the letter with the message, and it is shown as a horizontal white brushstroke. The man has been interpreted as the messenger of death.
The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog) – (MET)
“The Houses of Parliament” by Claude Monet is one in a series of paintings of the Palace of Westminster, home of the British Parliament, created during the early 1900s while Monet stayed in London.
All of the series’ pictures share the same viewpoint from Monet’s terrace at St Thomas’ Hospital overlooking the Thames and the approximate similar canvas size. They depict different times of the day and weather conditions.
“Houses of Parliament, London” (Art Institute of Chicago)
This painting’s viewpoint was close to that of J. M. W. Turner’s paintings, which Monet admired, of the fire that had destroyed much of the old Parliament complex in 1834.
Also, James McNeill Whistler’s artworks of the Thames inspired Monet.
“The Houses of Parliament, Sunset” (National Gallery of Art, DC)
By the time of the Houses of Parliament series, Monet had ceased his earlier practice of completing a painting on the spot in front of the subject.
Monet continued refining the images back at his home base in France and sometimes used photographs to help in his task.
Some purists criticized this new approach, but Monet replied that his means of creating work was his own business, and it was up to the viewer to judge the final result.
London, Houses of Parliament. The Sun Shining through the Fog
Monet produced nearly a hundred views of the Thames River in London. He painted Waterloo Bridge and Charing Cross Bridge from his room in the Savoy Hotel and the Houses of Parliament from Saint Thomas’s Hospital.
The artist continued to refine the paintings and wrote to his dealer Durand-Ruel: “I cannot send you a single canvas of London… It is indispensable to have them all before me and to tell the truth. Not one is definitely finished. I develop them all together.”
“Seagulls, the River Thames and the Houses of Parliament” (Pushkin Museum)
Monet’s first painting series exhibition in 1891 was of fifteen Haystack paintings, painted from different points of view and at different times of the day. Two years later, he produced twenty-six views of Rouen Cathedral.
In this series, Monet also experimented with cropping the Cathedral. Only parts of the façade are depicted on the canvas. Again these paintings focused on the effects of light and shade in the composition.
Monet traveled to the Mediterranean, where he painted landscapes and seascapes, including a series of paintings in Venice. In London, he painted four series: the Houses of Parliament, London, Charing Cross Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, and Views of Westminster Bridge.
Other series by Monet include Poplars, Mornings on the Seine, and the Water Lilies.
Haystacks at Scottish National Gallery
Haystacks by Claude Monet is part of a series of stacks of harvested wheat or barley and oats. The original French title, Les Meules à Giverny, means The Stacks at Giverny. The series consists of twenty-five canvas, which Monet began near the end of the summer of 1890, and though Monet also produced earlier paintings using this same stack subject.
Stacks of Wheat (End of Day, Autumn) at Art Institute of Chicago
The impressionist series is famous for how Monet repeated the same theme to show the different light and atmosphere at different times of day, across the seasons, and in many types of weather. Monet’s Haystacks series is one of his earliest to rely on repetition of a subject to illustrate a subtle difference in color perception across variations of times of day, seasons, and weather.
Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer) at Art Institute of Chicago
The stacks belonged to Monet’s neighbor, and Monet noticed from his farm the way the light changed on the stacks.
Monet started with two canvases, a sunny and an overcast version. But Monet soon found he could not catch the ever-changing light and mood on just two paintings.
Thus Monet’s daily routine involved carting paints, easels, and many unfinished canvases back and forth, working on whichever canvas most closely resembled the scene of the moment as the conditions and light fluctuated.
Although he began painting the stacks en Plein air, Monet later revised his initial impressions in his studio, both to generate contrast and to preserve the harmony within the series.
“Meules, milieu du jour” (National Gallery of Australia)
The Haystacks series was a financial success for Monet. When the Haystack series was first exhibited in 1891, every painting sold within days.
The show met with great public acclaim, and as most of the pictures sold quickly, Monet’s prices began to rise steeply. As a result, he was able to buy outright for his house and grounds at Giverny and to start constructing a waterlily pond.
After years of mere subsistence living, he was able to enjoy financial success.
“Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning” (Getty Museum)
Monet undertook to capture the Haystacks in direct sunlight and then to explore in his art the same viewpoint in the various light and atmospheric conditions.
Sometimes Monet would search for harmonious transitions within the series and alter the canvases back in his studio.
For Monet, the concept of producing and exhibiting a series of paintings related by subject and vantage point began in 1889, and his interest in the serial motif continued for the rest of his career.
Garden at Sainte-Adresse
“Garden at Sainte-Adresse” by Claude Monet was painted in the summer of 1867 at the resort town of Sainte-Adresse on the English Channel, near Le Havre, France.
Monet depicted a garden with a view of Honfleur. The view is from the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine across from Le Havre. Monet combines smooth, traditional rendering with sparkling passages of rapid, separate brushwork, and spots of pure color.
Poppy Field in a Hollow near Giverny
“Poppy Field in a Hollow near Giverny” by Claude Monet was painted in 1885 in a region that is just 80 km (50 mi) northwest from Paris, with rolling hills and cultivated fields of poppies and wheat.
Monet roamed this region during his first few years after arriving at the village of Giverny.
Although Monet had started to plant in his garden shortly after he moved in Giverny, his garden had not yet developed and bloomed to a stage that it could match the surrounding countryside.
Monet instead turned to the nearby poppy fields, which offered a dynamic and varied display of natural color and beauty for his inspiration.
The Gare St-Lazare (The National Gallery, London)
“The Gare St-Lazare” by Claude Monet is one of four surviving Monet paintings representing the interior of this train station.
Monet depicted the Gare St-Lazare as an interior landscape, with smoke from the engines creating the same effect as clouds in the sky.
He used swift brushstrokes to create the gleaming engines to the right and the passengers as if dark shadows on the platform.
“La Gare Saint-Lazare” (Musée d’Orsay)
“La Gare Saint-Lazare” by Claude Monet is one of four surviving Monet paintings representing the interior of this train station.
Monet depicted the Gare St-Lazare as an interior landscape, with smoke from the engines creating the same effect as clouds in the sky.
After several years of painting in the countryside in Argenteuil, he turned to urban landscapes in Paris. Monet was diversifying his portfolio and competing with other painters of modern life.
In this painting, Monet successfully captured the effects of light, movement, and clouds of steam in a modern urban setting.
“Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare” by Claude Monet (Art Institute of Chicago)
“Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare” by Claude Monet is one of four surviving Monet paintings representing the interior of the Saint-Lazare train station.
Monet depicted the Gare St-Lazare as an interior landscape, with smoke from the engines creating the same effect as clouds in the sky. After several years of painting in the countryside in Argenteuil, he turned to urban landscapes in Paris.
Monet was diversifying his portfolio and competing with other painters of modern life. In this painting, Monet successfully captured the effects of light, movement, and clouds of steam in a modern urban setting.
Le Pont de Argenteuil (The Argenteuil Bridge)
Le Pont de Argenteuil (The Argenteuil Bridge) by Claude Monet depicts a bridge with a steam train in the background, and the foreground is dominated by shades of green long grasses and trees.
This painting is a study of Monet’s impressionist style characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, emphasizing a depiction of light in its changing qualities.
Impression, Sunrise
“Impression, Sunrise” by Claude Monet, was first shown at what would become known as the “Exhibition of the Impressionists” in Paris in1874.
This painting is credited with inspiring the name of the “Impressionist” movement. The title of the painting seemed to be chosen in haste for the purpose of the urgent printing of the exhibition catalog.
However, the term “Impressionism” was not new. It had been used for some time to describe the effect of paintings of Manet and others; whos works featured loose brushwork and softness of form.
It was the art critic Louis Leroy’s review of the exhibition, who used the title “The Exhibition of the Impressionists” to describe the new style of work displayed, which he claimed was typified by Monet’s painting of the same name.
Among the thirty participants, the 1874 exhibition was Monet, Degas, Pissarro, Renoir, and Sisley. There were over two hundred works that were seen by about 4,000 people. Museum: Musée Marmottan Monet
Japanese Bridge Paintings by Claude Monet – Musée Marmottan Monet
The Japanese Bridge by Claude Monet depicts the footbridge over the lily pond at Monet’s Giverney Gardens. In 1883 Monet turned a small pond on at Giverney into an Asian-influenced water garden.
Monet expanded his pond by diverting water from the Epte River. Monet surrounded the pond with a diverse arrangement of flowers, bushes, and trees. He filled the basin with water lilies and added a Japanese-style wooden bridge in 1895.
He then started painting the pond with its gardens, water lilies and Japanese Pond for the rest of his life. Museum: Musée Marmottan Monet
Water Lilies by Claude Monet – Musée Marmottan Monet
The Musée Marmottan Monet has a large selection of the Water Lilies paintings from the series created by Claude Monet.
At the beginning of the 1900s, Monet created his most extensive series of paintings based on his water lily pond in his garden at Giverny, France.
Monet first rented a house and gardens in Giverny in 1883.
As Monet’s fortunes improved with his increasing success, his painting sales, Monet was able to buy the house, the surrounding buildings, and the land for his gardens in 1890. Museum: Musée Marmottan Monet
Gardens at Giverny Paintings by Claude Monet – Musée Marmottan Monet
Musée Marmottan Monet selection of paintings of aspects of Giverny Gardens by Claude Monet:
- Yellow Irises
- Day Lilies
- Roses
- Weeping Willow
Monet first rented a house and gardens in Giverny in 1883. The house was situated near the main road between the towns of Vernon and Gasny.
As Monet’s fortunes improved with his increasing success, his painting sales, Monet was able to buy the house, the surrounding buildings, and the land for his gardens in 1890. Museum: Musée Marmottan Monet
Weeping Willow Series
Weeping Willow, by Claude Monet, depicts a Weeping Willow tree growing at the edge of his water garden pond in Giverny, France.
Monet had painted ten Weeping Willow paintings by 1919. A selection below comes from the following Museums:
- Weeping Willow by Claude Monet – Kimbell Art Museum
- Weeping Willow by Claude Monet – Musée Marmottan Monet
- Weeping Willow by Claude Monet – Columbus Museum of Art
- Saule Pleureur by Claude Monet – Musée Marmottan Monet
Weeping Willow by Claude Monet (Kimbell Art Museum) is one of a series of Monet paintings of this Weeping Willow.
The Weeping Willow paintings are characterized by shadowy and writhing forms, express his grieving mood. These paintings were his mournful response to the tragedy of World War I.
La Grenouillère
“La Grenouillère” by Claude Monet depicts “Flowerpot Island”, also known as the Camembert, and the gangplank to La Grenouillère, a floating restaurant and boat-hire on the Seine at Croissy-Sur-Seine.
He was accompanied by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who also painted the scene at the same time. This Claude Monet sketch captures his experience of fleeting visual effects or impressions that changed from moment to moment.
These sketches were an essential step towards Impressionism. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Bathers at La Grenouillère
Bathers at La Grenouillère by Claude Monet was painted during the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir painted together at La Grenouillère. It was a resort on the river Seine some 12 kilometers west of Paris.
It had become a popular weekend retreat from the city during the 1860s. Monet made several oil sketches at the resort, including this picture, in preparation for a large painting of the site that he planned to exhibit.
Painted quickly these studies have a directness and immediacy, Monet was painting what he saw, without any attempt to compose a scene. Museum: National Gallery, London
Waterloo Bridge Series
Waterloo Bridge by Claude Monet is one in a series of paintings of the famous bridge in London. All of the pictures in the “Waterloo Bridge” series share the same viewpoint overlooking the Thames.
The paintings depict different times of the day and very different weather and light conditions.
From 1899 through 1901, Monet set up his paints in the Savoy hotel and on the river’s north bank and painted the bridge over 40 times.
He depicted the “Waterloo Bridge” more than either the “Houses of Parliament” or the “Charing Cross Bridge,” from his two other London series.
Claude Monet’s masterpieces from his Waterloo Bridge series include:
- Waterloo Bridge by Claude Monet – Denver Art Museum
- Waterloo Bridge, Gray Day by Claude Monet – National Gallery of Art, DC
- Waterloo Bridge: the Sun in the Fog by Claude Monet – National Gallery of Canada
- Waterloo Bridge. Effect of Fog by Claude Monet – Hermitage Museum
- Waterloo Bridge in London by Claude Monet – National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
- “Waterloo Bridge” by Claude Monet – Kunsthalle Hamburg
La Japonaise
“Madame Monet wearing a Kimono” by Claude Monet depicts Camille, the artist’s wife, in a splendid kimono standing in front of a wall covered in Japanese fans.
Paintings of European women in Japanese costume were popular in France in the second half of the 1800s. Monet’s wife, Camille, is wearing a blond wig in this painting to emphasize her Western identity.
Monet exhibited this work at the second group show of the Impressionist painters in 1876, where it attracted much attention.
Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son
“Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son” by Claude Monet depicts the artist’s wife Camille Monet and their son Jean Monet during 1875 while they were living in Argenteuil.
Monet’s brushwork creates splashes of color to capture a moment during a stroll on a windy summer’s day. Madame Monet and her son are viewed from below the horizon line, with an upward perspective, against the white clouds in an azure sky.
Sunlight shines from behind Camille to whiten the top of her parasol and the flowing cloth at her back, while brightly colored wildflowers surround her front with yellow.
Camille Monet’s veil is blown by the wind, as is her swirling white dress.
The waving grass of the meadow is both in the light and the woman’s shadow, which is echoed by the shaded green underside of her parasol. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
“The Doge’s Palace” by Claude Monet
“The Doge’s Palace” by Claude Monet depicts the Venician leader’s palace, bathed in warm light, and painted from the vantage point of a boat moored in the lagoon. The Impressionist work is painted with dappled brushstrokes in a bright palette of pinks, yellows, and blues.
The composition is divided into two horizontal zones. The upper part depicts the pink and white Venetian Gothic palace and the blue sky above. The lower part is filled with the Venetian lagoon’s rippling waters and the reflection of the buildings.
The palace facade is composed of diamond-patterned stonework of the walls, which are pierced by arched windows. The colonnaded arcades on the lower two floors create the darker shadowing. Museum: Brooklyn Museum
Claude Monet
- Name: Oscar-Claude Monet
- Born: 1840 – Paris, France
- Died: 1926 (aged 86) – Giverny, France
- Nationality: French
- Movement: Impressionism
Claude Monet Timeline
- 1840 – Monet is born in Paris, France.
- 1845 – Monet’s family move to the Normandy region of France, where he grows up.
- 1856 – Monet takes painting lessons, including painting en Plein air (outdoors).
- 1861 – Drafted into the military and spends two years in Africa. After becoming sick, he was sent home to recover.
- 1862 – Studies under Charles Gleyre in Paris. Becomes friends with Renoir, Cézanne, Degas, and Frédéric Bazille.
- 1870 – Marries Camille Doncieux in Paris.
- 1870 – Monet travels to England and explores paintings by John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner. Meets Pissarro.
- 1871 – Monet travels to the Netherlands and explores Dutch painters.
- 1871 – Moves to Argenteuil, France, where he lives until 1878.
- 1872 – Painted Impression, Sunrise the painting that gives Impressionism its name.
- 1874 – First Impressionists exhibition.
- 1879 – Monet’s first wife, Camille Monet, dies.
- 1890 – Monet purchases land in Giverny and begins developing his garden. He begins painting the Haystacks series.
- 1892 – Monet marries Alice Hoschedé. He starts painting the Rouen Cathedral series.
- 1897 – Starts painting Water Lilies series.
- 1900 – Begins Houses of Parliament series.
- 1908 – Travels to Venice and paints Venice.
- 1911 – Monet’s second wife, Alice, dies.
- 1916 – Monet begins painting his large Water Lilies and his panorama paintings and triptychs.
- 1926 – Monet dies of lung cancer at the age of 86.
Claude Monet – Facts
- Monet was Paris-born but was raised on the Normandy Coast.
- Monet began drawing as a young boy, sketching his teachers and neighbors.
- Monet had an estranged relationship with his father. His father did not support his artistic passion and was unwilling to help him financially.
- In 1858, Monet met Eugène Boudin. Boudin became his mentor and encouraged him to paint “en plain air.”
- In 1861, Monet was drafted into the army and join the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry, he served in Algeria, a territory that was then controlled by France.
- Monet lived in Argenteuil from 1871 to 1878, where he was drawn to the natural beauty, and he painted 170 canvases during his time in Argenteuil.
- For the year of the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874, Monet painted the Argenteuil Bridge seven times.
- Japanese art fascinated Monet, attending a Japanese exhibition in the 1890s. He amassed a collection of more than 200 Japanese prints over the years.
- France’s traditional art institutions were not fans of the Monet’s style. The saw his style as “casual” and “incomplete.”
- His style focused on perception, capturing outdoor scenes by using rapid brush strokes.
- In his late 20s, Monet was depressed and struggling to support himself and his family financially, Monet jumped off a bridge in 1868. Fortunately, he survived his fall.
- Monet destroyed hundreds of his works due to bouts of frustration and self-doubt.
- Monet was baptized Catholic, but he went on to become an atheist.
- Monet disliked traditional art schools. So he became a student of Swiss artist Charles Gleyre. It was here that Monet met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frederic Bazille, and Alfred Sisley.
- With the younger artists, Monet explored new approaches to art like distinctive brush strokes and accurate depiction of light and unusual visual angles.
- Outdoor painting was critical in developing his style. He created a series of pictures where he explored the effects of rain, mist, smoke, and steam on landscapes and objects.
- The term “Impressionism” was used as a derogatory label in a critical review of artists who used the Impressionists style; it was borrowed from Monet’s painting title called “Impression: Sunrise.”
- Monet claimed that he titled the painting Impression, Sunrise, due to his hazy painting style in his depiction of the subject.
- In his most famous series of twenty-six views of Rouen Cathedral, he broke tradition and cropped the Cathedral views, so that only a portion of the facade is seen on the canvas.
- Monet’s favorite model was his first wife, Camille Doncieux. She appeared in around 32 paintings.
- Monet’s second wife, Alice Hoschedé, was irrationally jealous of his first wife, who had died.
- Monet suffered from cataracts in his later years.
- In 1883, Monet moved to the small village in Giverny and spent ten years building the water garden, where he painted perhaps his most famous works.
- As Monet’s garden expanded, he hired six gardeners to tend to it.
- One gardener’s job was to paddle a boat onto the pond each morning, washing and dusting each lily pad.
- Monet’s series of Water Lilies consists of about 250 oil paintings, which were painted during the last thirty years of his life.
- Monet’s famous Japanese bridge over his Giverny pond remains to this day at his home in Giverny.
- For the last 25 years of his life, Monet painted the water lilies in a series of paintings that water lilies in different light and textures.
- In 1926, Monet died of lung cancer at the age of 86.
- Monet is buried in the Giverny church cemetery.
- In 1980, his former home in Giverny was opened to tourists to see his gardens, woodcut prints, and souvenirs.
- Monet’s Giverny garden, bedroom, studio, and blue sitting-room are open for tours.
A Tour of French Artists
- Georges de La Tour (1593 – 1652)
- Nicolas Poussin (1594 – 1665)
- Élisabeth Sophie Chéron (1648 – 1711)
- François Boucher (1703 – 1770)
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 – 1806)
- Jacques-Louis David (1748 – 1825)
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780 – 1867)
- Eugène Delacroix (1798 – 1863)
- Rosa Bonheur (1822 – 1899)
- Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 – 1904)
- Camille Pissarro (1830 – 1903 )
- Édouard Manet (1832 – 1883)
- Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917)
- Paul Cézanne (1839 – 1906)
- Auguste Rodin (1840 – 1917)
- Claude Monet (1840 – 1926)
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919)
- Berthe Morisot (1841 – 1895)
- Henri Rousseau (1844 – 1910)
- Gustave Caillebotte (1848 – 1894)
- Jean Béraud (1849 – 1935)
- Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890)
- Georges Seurat (1859 – 1891)
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 – 1901)
- Artists and their Art
Claude Monet Quotes
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“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand as if it were necessary to understand when it is simply necessary to love.”
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“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in the corner of nature.”
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“No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.”
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“I can only draw what I see.”
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“No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.”
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“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
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“It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly. ”
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“It took me time to understand my waterlilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them. ”
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“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.”
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“People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand when it’s simply necessary to love.”
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“Everything I have earned has gone into these gardens.”
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“Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.”
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“One can do something if one can see and understand it…”
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“I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics. ”
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“I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is continual torture.”
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“I will do water – beautiful blue water.”
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“I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.”
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“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
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“No, I’m not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet. ”
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“My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.”
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Claude Monet . Art Documentary
Biography of Claude Monet
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“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand
as if it were necessary to understand when it is simply necessary to love.”
– Claude Monet
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Photo Credit: 1) Pierre-Auguste Renoir [Public domain]
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