Painting: The Parc Monceau, Paris 2
Artist: Claude Monet
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Style: Impressionism
Size: 73.3 x 54.3 cm
Year: 1878
Credit Line: The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund, 1959 59.142
After the Parc Monceau was redesigned by Baron Haussmann in the mid-nineteenth century, it became a chic place for Parisians to stroll and meet friends. Monet painted at least five views of it during visits to the French capital in 1876 and 1878.
Painting: Gondola in Venice
Artist: Claude MONET
Year: 1908
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France
Painting: The Palazzo da Mula
Artist: Claude MONET
Year: 1908
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Painting: San Giorgio Maggiore
Artist: Claude MONET
Year: 1908
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA
Other San Giorgio Maggiore Paintings by Monet
Painting: Venice, The Grand Canal
Artist: Claude Monet
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 73.5 x 92.5 cm
Year: 1908
Museum: Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, California, USA
Once stayed in Venice for 3 months, 1908, as he had done in France, Claude Monet painted Grand Canal in series. This work is one of six views of Santa Maria della Salute, seen on this occasion from across the Grand Canal on the steps of the Palazzo Barbaro where he and his wife had lodgings.
Monet finished his views of Venice back home in France. He revisited the city in 1909 to look once more at the light effects and he did not display the pictures in public until 1912.
Painting: San Giorgio Maggiore at Twilight
Artist: Claude MONET
Year: 1908
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 65 x 92 cm
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, GB
In late November 1908, Monet and his wife made gondola trips to enjoy ‘these splendid sunsets which are unique in the world’.
A view of the monastery island of San Giorgio, painted from the south-eastern end of Venice. On the right are faintly visible the dome of Santa Maria Salute and the mouth of the Grand Canal.
Also known as San Giorgio Maggiore by/at Twiligh.
Painting: The Garden of The Tuileries on A Winter Afternoon
Artist: Camille Pissarro
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 29×36.25″
Year: 1899
Pissarro and his famiy moved into an apartment on the Rue de Rivoli, Paris, in December 1898. The winter and spring he painted fourteen views from his windows. Some depict the Louvre, which he could see to the east. Here, he looks south over the Jardin des Tuileries, past the Seine River, toward the twin steeples of the neo-Gothic church of Sainte-Clotilde.
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