Claude Monet

1840–1926 · Impressionism

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise, which was exhibited in 1874 at the First Impressionist Exhibition, initiated by Monet and a number of like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon.

40 paintings

• The Customs House at Varengeville (1897)
• Stack of Wheat (Snow Effect, Overcast Day) (1890–91)
• Water Lilies (1906)
• Sandvika, Norway (1895)
• Low Tide at Pourville, near Dieppe, 1882 (1882)
• Spring Flowers (1864)
• The Red Kerchief (c. 1868–73)
• Gardener's House at Antibes (1888)
• Rouen Cathedral, Portal, Morning Light (1894)
• Snow Effect at Argenteuil (1875)
• Still Life with Bottle, Carafe, Bread, and Wine (c. 1862/1863)
• The Willows (1880)
• The Houses of Parliament, Sunset (1903)
• Banks of the Seine, Vétheuil (1880)
• Woman Seated under the Willows (1880)
• Rouen Cathedral, West Façade, Sunlight (1894)
• The Seine at Giverny (1897)
• Jerusalem Artichoke Flowers (1880)
• Palazzo da Mula, Venice (1908)
• Waterloo Bridge, Gray Day (1903)
• Bazille and Camille (Study for "Déjeuner sur l'Herbe") (1865)
• Argenteuil (c. 1872)
• Ships Riding on the Seine at Rouen (1872/1873)
• Bridge at Argenteuil on a Gray Day (c. 1876)
• The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil (1881)
• The Cradle - Camille with the Artist's Son Jean (1867)
• Interior, after Dinner (1868/1869)
• Waterloo Bridge, London, at Dusk (1904)
• Waterloo Bridge, London, at Sunset (1904)
• Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son (1875)
• Cliffs at Pourville (1882)
• Sainte-Adresse (1867)
• The Artist's Garden in Argenteuil (A Corner of the Garden with Dahlias) (1873)
• The Japanese Footbridge (1899)
• Woman with a Parasol, facing left (1886)
• Frost (1880)
• Femme à l'ombrelle tournée vers la droite (1886)
• Haystack near Giverny (1884)
• Rouen Cathedral, End of the Day (1894)
• Rouen Cathedral, Portal and Tower d'Albane, Midday (1894)