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Claude Monet

Self-portrait of Claude Monet in sepia.
Details of the artist
Birth name:  Oscar-Claude Monet.
Artistic name:  Claude Monet.
Nationality:  France.
Year of birth:  1840, Paris.
Year of death:  1926, Giverny, France.
Style:  Impressionism.

Leader of the Impressionist art movement, Monet's paintings are recognized as the purest examples of this style. His importance is reflected in the price achieved by his oil painting "Le Bassin Aux Nympheas", sold in 2008 in London for 40.9 million pounds sterling.

Monet laid the foundations of modern painting, his brush did not seek to communicate a story or give moral instruction to the viewer, but instead placed on the canvas impressions based on the sensations experienced by the eye. The pointillist brushstrokes, which he painted in his works with masterful property, are the origin of modern pictorial art.
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Works of Monet



  • "Impression, Sunrise"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Genre: Seascape
    Original title: Impression, soleil levant
    English title: Impression Sunrise
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: 1872
    Located at: Marmottan Monet Museum, Paris

    The work depicts the sunrise over a misty seascape.

    It is the first Impressionist painting, the one that gave the style its name.


  • "Poppy Field"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Genre: Landscapes
    Original title: Coquelicots
    English title: Poppies
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: 1873
    Dimensions (original): 65 x 50 cm.
    Located at: Orsay Museum, Paris

    Monet painted this work observing the fields of wildflowers outside the city that gives the painting its title. This work reveals Monet's passion for color. With dots of red, he disperses the flowers in a natural profusion across the lush green fields.

    The composition is in an Impressionist style, displaying a landscape in which the figures of Camille and Jean (the painter's wife and daughter, respectively) are sketched in the foreground with strokes of violet, black, and yellow. Similar silhouettes reappear in the distance on the tops of hills more as a suggestion of color than as well-defined figures.


  • "The Artist's Garden at Giverny"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Theme: Nature
    Original title: Le jardin de l'artiste à Giverny
    English title: The Artist's Garden at Giverny
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: 1900
    Located at: Orsay Museum, Paris

    When the lilacs bloomed, Monet painted them with short, thick strokes of concentrated color, creating in this work a floating effect of a layer of flowers, distributed between sunlit and shaded areas.

    The artist did not like the formal character of the main path leading to the door of his house in Giverny. Instead of the trees that were in the walkway, Monet scattered all sorts of flowers in colors: pink, fuchsia, green, yellow, red, and white.

    The artist's wife protested the fact that the trees had been removed from the garden, but Monet insisted that they blocked the light from his flowers.


  • "San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk"
    Theme: Venice
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Original title: Saint-Georges majeur au crépuscule
    English title: San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk; Sunset in Venice
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: 1908
    Located at: Bridgestone Museum, Tokyo

    This is one of the most representative paintings of the artist. Characterized by the orange tones with which the artist perceived the sunset of the Italian city. The water and the cathedral of Venice are distinguishable.


  • "Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Original title: La Promenade
    English title: Woman with a Parasol
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: 1871
    Located at: National Gallery of Art, Washington

    Probably the most remembered work of the artist, in which he portrays a woman, also known by the title "Woman with a Parasol". The painting was created in the city of Promenade, in 1875. It is said to be a double portrait, of the artist's wife and son.


  • "Argenteuil Bridge"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Original title: Le Pont d'Argenteuil
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: 1874
    Located at: Orsay Museum, Paris

  • "The Cliffs at Étretat"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Genre: Seascape
    English title: The Cliffs at Étretat
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: 1885
    Located at: Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts

    The views are real and located in the French city of Étretat, where on its coast these spectacular rock formations are found. This one in particular is a stone arch that at that time, and still today, continues to attract tourists.

    One of the particularities of the viewpoint chosen by Monet is that this portion of the beach can only be reached by boat or by descending very steep terrains on foot. The afternoon sun rays directly illuminate only a portion of the landscape, giving the work a beautiful effect.


  • "The Magpie"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Original title: La Pie
    English title: The Magpie
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: 1869
    Located at: Orsay Museum, Paris

    For his contemporary colleagues, it represented a complete break from what had been done in Impressionist landscapes. Until that date, classic elements such as flowers, fields, and portraits remained unchanged.

    Although the landscape is cold, the artist has endowed it with a variety of warm hues, with the sun's rays turning the more illuminated parts yellow.


  • "The Green Wave"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Genre: Seascape
    English title: The Green Wave
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: 1866-67
    Located at: MET Museum, New York

    Although completed in 1867, this work was first exhibited to the public in 1879, more than a decade later.

    At that time, a critic noted that the influence of Manet was evident in the work, specifically considering it as a modern version of naval battle seascapes, characterized by the framing and high horizon, of which the most notable is "The Battle of Kearsarge and Alabama" (1864).


  • "Boulevard des Capucines"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Original title: Boulevard des Capucines
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: 1873 - 1874
    Located at: Nelson-Atkins Museum, Missouri

    This way, the artist captures the urban landscape of the French winter.

    The mix of black dresses, snow, and buildings form a masterpiece of cold colors.


  • "Water-Lily Pond, Symphony in Green"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Theme: Nature
    Original title: Le Pont Japonais
    English title: The Japanese Footbridge
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: circa 1899

    An Impressionist work showing a Japanese-style bridge crossing a marshy landscape in France.


  • "Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Theme: Snowy Landscape
    English title: Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: 1891
    Located at: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

    Depicts stacks of wheat in a snowy landscape, highlighting the cold contrast between the white winter and reddish heaps of grass.


  • "Water Lilies"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Theme: Nature
    Original title: Nympheas
    English title: Water Lilies
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: Circa 1898
    Located at: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA

    Shows in detail the lotus flowers floating on the water.


  • "Regatta at Sainte-Adresse"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Genre: Seascape
    Original title: Régates à Sainte-Adresse
    English title: Regatta at Sainte-Adresse
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: 1876
    Located at: MET Museum, New York

    The seascape with turquoise and sand colors shows the French coast with the contemporary audience watching the sailboats.


  • "Boat on the River Epte"
    Theme: Period Scene
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Original title: En canot sur l'Epte
    English title: Boating on the River Epte
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: 1890
    Located at: São Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil.

    Depicts two maidens boating on a boat over the river Epte.


  • "Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Theme: Nature
    English title: Water Lily Pool and Japanese Bridge
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: 1889
    Located at: MET Museum, New York

    Belongs to a series of similar works by the same artist, paintings inspired by the Water Park of Giverny, France.


  • "In a Norwegian Boat. The Boat at Giverny"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Original title: En norvégienne, La barque à Giverny
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: 1887
    Located at: Musée d'Orsay, Paris

  • "Water-Lily Pond (The Clouds)"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Theme: Nature
    Original title: Les Nymphéas
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: circa 1923

    Part of the series of paintings of marshes and water lilies.


  • "Charing Cross Bridge"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Original title: Charing Cross Bridge
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: 1899
    Located at: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

    The work is part of a series of paintings with different views of the Thames River, London. A year later, he returned to canvas the same landscape but with a simpler composition and less rich in nuances.


  • "Walk (Road of the Farm Saint-Siméon)"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Theme: Landscapes
    English title: Road of the Farm Saint-Siméon
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: 1864
    Located at: National Museum of Western Art, Japan.

    In English, the title translates to: The Road to the Saint Simeon Farm.

    The work features a landscape painted in earthy brown tones, typical of the French autumn.


  • "Waves Breaking"
    Author: Claude Monet
    Style: Impressionism
    Theme: Landscapes
    Genre: Seascape
    English title: Waves Breaking
    Type: Painting
    Technique: Oil
    Support: Canvas
    Year: 1881
    Located at: The National Gallery of Australia.

    Depicts a landscape with rich textures and colors forming the water and foam of the breaking waves in the sea.


  • "Wisteria"