Claude Monet Garden At Vetheuil

Claude monet the artist s garden at vétheuil 1880 by ciaran carso n august 12 2019 today i thought i d just take a lie down and drift.

Claude monet garden at vetheuil.

The artist s garden at vétheuil 1880 monet planted gardens wherever he lived. After his wife camille s death friend alice hoschedé stayed with monet and they raised their children together as one large family. The garden at vétheuil 1881. Oil on canvas 59 5 x 74 5 cm signed and dated lower left.

When he rented this house at vétheuil he made arrangements with the owner to landscape the terraces which lead down to the seine. Monet cultivated a garden in vétheuil and painted their youngest children together on a path flanked by giant sunflowers. This poster is a reproduction of claude monet s the artist s garden at vétheuil 1881 from the collection of the national gallery of art depicting the artist s small son on a shade dappled path surrounded by sunflowers. When he rented this house at vétheuil he made arrangements with the owner to landscape the terraces which lead down to the seine.

The years that monet spent at a rented pink house in vétheuil were among the most difficult of his life. Claude monet 1881 inv no. The garden gate at vetheuil was created in 1876 by claude monet in impressionism style. The boy with the wagon is monet s young son and on the steps behind him are other members of his extended household.

Claude monet painted the artist s garden at vétheuil in 1880. Monet planted gardens wherever he lived. His wife fell ill and died. A set table in front of an open window was one of henri le sidaner s favorite motifs which he varied in around eighty works.

The view from the artist s house shows the garden. His servants all quit. The market for his work had collapsed. The dominant complementary colors heightened by the rapid manner in which he dabbed his paint on the canvas create a sense of movement across the canvas as if the flowers.