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: 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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