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The Artist's Garden at Giverny (French: Le Jardin de l'artiste à Giverny) is an oil on canvas painting by Claude Monet done in 1900, now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.. It is one of many works by the artist of his garden at Giverny over the last thirty years of his life.
The Fondation Claude Monet is a nonprofit that manages the house and gardens of Claude Monet in Giverny, France, where Monet lived and painted for 43 years. Monet was inspired by his gardens, and spent years transforming them, planting thousands of flowers. He believed that it was important to surround himself with nature and paint outdoors.
Claude Monet, The Water Lilies – The Clouds, 1920–1926, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris Claude Monet, The Water Lilies – Setting Sun, 1920–1926, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris Claude Monet, Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond, c. 1920, 200 × 1276 cm (78.74 × 502.36 in), oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. [3] He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet (1800–1871) and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet (1805–1857), both of them second-generation Parisians.
Monet settled in Giverny in 1883. Most of his paintings from 1883 until his death 40 years later were of scenes within 3 kilometres (2 mi) of his home and gardens.Monet was intensely aware of and fascinated by the visual nuances of the region's landscape and by the endless variations in the days and in the seasons—the stacks were just outside his door.
List of paintings by Claude Monet; Other Monet paintings destined for the Château de Rottembourg's rotund salon are: [4] l'Étang à Montgeron [5] (Lake at Montgeron), also part of the Hermitage Museum; Les Dindons [6] (The Turkeys), now at Musée d'Orsay; L'Arrivée à Montgeron (The Arrival at Montgeron), private US collection
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The Garden at Sainte-Adresse is a painting by the French impressionist painter Claude Monet. (Oil on canvas, 98.1 by 129.9 centimetres (38.6 in × 51.1 in)). [1] The painting was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art after an auction sale at Christie's in December 1967, under the French title La terrasse à Sainte-Adresse. [2]