Claude Monet: # Thumbnails of 12 pictures - _monet.jpg Claude Monet: Garden at Sainte-Adresse, 1867 [New York] - adresse.jpg Claude Monet: Gare St.Lazare, 1877 [London] - stlazare.jpg Claude Monet: The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest, 1865 [New York] - bodmer_o.jpg Claude Monet - Jean Monet Sleeping .jpg 196k - jean monet sleeping.jpg Claude Monet - Sisley Dinner .jpg 152k - dinner.jpg Claude Monet - "Jardin de l'infante" 164k - jardin.jpg Claude Monet - "Bougival Thaw" 102k - bougival.jpg Claude Monet: The Waterlily Pond, 1899 [London] - jpbridg2.jpg Claude Monet: The Japanese Bridge, 1918 [Minneapolis] - jpbridge.jpg Claude Monet: The Highway Bridge at Argenteuil, 1874 [Washington] - hwybridg.jpg Claude Monet: Boulevard des Capucines, 1873 [Kansas City] - capucine.jpg Claude Monet: Garden in Bordighera, Impression of Morning, 1884 [St.Petersburg] - bordgher.jpg Claude Monet: Bordighera, 1884 [Chicago] - bordighe.jpg Claude Monet: Bordighera, Italy, 1884 [private] - bordigi.jpg Claude Monet: Bordighera, Italy (DETAIL) - bordigix.jpg Claude Monet: Haystacks at Chailly at Sunrise, 1865 [San Diego] - hayricks.jpg Claude Monet: The Corniche of Monaco, 1884 [Amsterdam] - corniche.jpg MONET, Claude Saint-Lazare Station 1877 Oil on canvas 54.3 x 73.6 cm (21 3/8 x 29 in.) National Gallery, London MONET, Claude Garden at Sainte-Adresse 1867 Oil on canvas 98.1 x 129.9 cm (38 5/8 x 51 1/8 in.) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York MONET, Claude The Women in the Garden 1866-67 oil on canvas Musee d'Orsay, Paris Claude Monet "Sisley Dinner" 1868-1869 51x66 cm 152k Claude Monet "Bougival Thaw" 1867 65 x 81 cm Claude Monet "Jardin de l'infante" 1867 91.8 x 62 cm MONET, Claude The Waterlily Pond 1899 The National Gallery, London MONET, Claude The Japanese Bridge Probably 1918-24 Oil on canvas 89 x 116 cm (35 x 45 3/4 in.) The Minneapolis Institute of Arts MONET, Claude The Highway Bridge at Argenteuil 1874 Oil on canvas 60 x 79.7 cm (23 5/8 x 31 3/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC In this painting, Monet weaves a complex composition of interconnected forms. The foundation of the arrangement is four horizontal bands: the near shore, the water, the far shore and the sky. A pattern of shapes and lines is then overlaid to tie the different areas of the composition together. The dominant link is the bridge which on the pictorial level spans the river to bind the shores; on a compositional level, it spans the entire arrangement, connected to and linking all four of the basic forms in the painting. The boats provide an interesting latticework of lines with their masts and rigging. The central mast joins the water, far shore and sky, while the echoing lower mast connects visually all the way down to the unseen portion of the near shore. The cropping of this mast at the bottom of the canvas, a favorite Impressionist device, provides an especially dynamic link between the near shore (and by extension the very feet of the viewer) and the sky. The composition of this work is extremely pleasing to the eye, which is led effortlessly across the canvas and back again, into depth and returned to the picture plane, in a constant dynamic interplay of lines and forms. MONET, Claude Boulevard des Capucines 1873 Oil on canvas 79.4 x 59 cm (31 1/4 x 23 1/4") Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri MONET, Claude Garden in Bordighera, Impression of Morning 1884 Oil on canvas 25 3/4 x 32 in. (65.5 x 81.5 cm.) The Hermitage, St. Petersburg No. 3KP 522. Formerly collection Otto Krebs, Holzdorf MONET, Claude Bordighera 1884 Oil on canvas 64.8 x 81.3 cm (25 1/2 x 32 in) The Art Institute of Chicago MONET, Claude Bordighera, Italy 1884 Oil on canvas 23 5/8 x 28 3/4 in. (60 x 73 cm) Private collection MONET, Claude Bordighera, Italy (DETAIL) 1884 Oil on canvas 23 5/8 x 28 3/4 in. (60 x 73 cm) Private collection MONET, Claude Haystacks at Chailly at Sunrise 1865 Oil on canvas 30 x 60 cm (11 7/8 x 23 3/4 in.) San Diego Museum of Art This is an early work done a quarter-century before the famous Wheatstack series of 1890-91. In those later works, Monet succeeded in expressing the immutable essence of the Wheatstacks; here they are integrated into the overall landscape. The relative sizes of the Haystacks as well as the inclination of the low-lying clouds leads the eye forcefully toward the vanishing point of the rising sun. This leftward-leaning composition is accentuated by the exaggerated horizontality of the canvas. The muted colors and relatively finished brushwork, along with the pyramidal shapes of the haystacks, convey a sense of permanence that somewhat contradicts the depiction of something as transient as a sunrise. This is an important early reference point illustrating the artistic problems Monet worked to resolve as his style developed. MONET, Claude The Corniche of Monaco 1884 Oil on canvas 29 1/2 x 37 in. 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