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Claude Monet

A Walk in the Meadows at Argenteuil, 1873

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Description

Maker

  • Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French

Title

A Walk in the Meadows at Argenteuil

Year

1873

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

53.3 x 64.8 cm (21 x 25 1/2 inches)

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Gift of Houghton P. Metcalf, Jr.

Object Number

1998.107

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Inventing Impressionism

October 21, 2016 - June 11, 2017

In this glimpse of his wife and son in a flowering meadow, Monet captured the movement of light across the landscape by highlighting a diagonal course of grasses and juxtaposing their yellow-green hues to the complementary orange-reds of poppies in the foreground. Responding directly to his observations, he rendered the figures with short notational marks and used soft, wide brushstrokes in the sky and middle distance to suggest the optical blur of an overcast day. In this informal view of figures in nature, he emphasized atmospheric sensations over traditional notions of subject matter, anticipating the critical contention that “impressionists” painted random views of modern life with self-invented technique.

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In this glimpse of his wife and son in a flowering meadow, Monet captured the movement of light across the landscape. Highlighting a diagonal course of grasses, he juxtaposed their yellow-green hues to the complementary orange-reds of poppies in the foreground. He rendered the figures with short, notational marks and used soft, wide brushstrokes in the sky and middle distance to suggest the optical blur of an overcast day. In this informal view of figures in nature, Monet emphasized atmospheric sensations over traditional subject matter, anticipating criticism that “impressionists” painted random views with self-invented technique.

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