Claude Monet (1840 – 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.
For full biographical notes on Monet see part 1. For earlier works by Monet see parts 1 - 19 also.
This is part 20 of a 27-part series on the works of Claude Monet:
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| Claude Monet 1891 The Four Trees oil on canvas 81.9 x 81.6 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Claude Monet 1891 Three Poplar Trees in the Autumn oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| Claude Monet 1891 Three Poplar Trees, Autumn Effect oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| Claude Monet 1891 Three Trees in Autumn oil on canvas 92 x 72 cm Private Collection |
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| Claude Monet 1891 Three Trees in Grey Weather oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| Claude Monet 1891 Three Trees in Spring oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| Claude Monet 1891 Three Trees, Summer oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm National Museum of Western Art, Toyko |
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| Claude Monet 1892 Poplars on the River Epte seen from the Marsh oil on canvas 88 x 93 cm Private Collection |
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| Claude Monet 1892 Poplars, View from the Marsh oil on canvas |
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| Claude Monet 1891 The Côte Sauvage black crayon on paper 23.4 x 31.5 cm National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| Claude Monet 1892 The Cour d'Albane oil on canvas Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA |
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| Claude Monet 1892 The Cour d'Albane, Grey Weather oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| Claude Monet 1892 View of Rouen from the Cote Sainte-Catherine oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| Claude Monet 1892-93 Snow Effect, Giverny oil on canvas |
Rouen Cathedral 1892 -94
The
Rouen Cathedral paintings, more than thirty in all, were made in 1892 and 1893,
then reworked in Monet’s studio in 1894. Monet rented spaces across the street
from the cathedral, where he set up temporary studios for the purpose. In 1895,
he selected what he considered to be the twenty best paintings from the series
for display at his Paris dealer’s gallery, and of these he sold eight before
the exhibition was over. Pissarro and Cézanne visited the exhibition and
praised the series highly.
Historically,
the series was well-timed. In the early 1890s, France was seeing a revival of
interest in Catholicism and the subject was well received. Apart from its
religious significance, Rouen Cathedral–built in the Gothic style–represented
all that was best in French history and culture, being a style of architecture
that was admired and adopted by many European countries during the Middle Ages.
When Monet painted the Rouen Cathedral series, he had long
since been impressed with the way light imparts to a subject a distinctly
different character at different times of the day and the year, and as
atmospheric conditions change. For Monet, the effects of light on a subject
became as important as the subject itself. His Series Paintings, in
which he painted many views of the same subject under different lighting
conditions, are an attempt to illustrate the importance of light in our
perception of a subject at a given time and place.
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral West Facade, Sunlight oil on canvas 100 x 65 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, Morning Sun, Blue Harmony oil on canvas 91 x 63 cm Musee d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, Study of the Portal oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral West Facade, Dull Weather oil on canvas 100 x 65 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, Facade oil on canvas 100.4 x 65.4 cm Pola Museum of Art, Sengokuhara, Japan |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral. Facade ( Sunset ) oil on canvas Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral in the Fog oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral West Facade, Morning Effect oil on canvas 106.5 x 73.2 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, Sunlight Effect oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, Symphony in Grey and Rose oil on canvas 73 x 107 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, The Portal and Tower of Saint-Roman, Morning Effect oil on canvas 106 x 73 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, The Portal at Midday oil on canvas |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral West Facade, Full Sunlight, Harmony in Blue and Gold oil on canvas 107 x 73 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral at Noon oil on canvas |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral at Sunset oil on canvas |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral Façade and Tour d'Albane, Morning Effect oil on canvas 106.1 x 73.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral oil on canvas |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral oil on canvas |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, Clear Day oil on canvas |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, Evening, Harmony in Brown oil on canvas |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, Façade oil on canvas 100.6 x 66 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, Grey Weather oil on canvas |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, Magic in Blue oil on canvas |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, Symphony in Grey and Rose oil on canvas |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, The Portal and the Tour d'Albene, Grey Weather oil on canvas |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, the Portal in the Sun oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, the Portal oil on canvas |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, West Facade oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, West Facade, Sunlight oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral, The Portal ( Sunlight ) oil on canvas 99.7 x 65.7 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Claude Monet 1892-94 Rouen Cathedral. The Portal ( Morning Effect ) oil on canvas 107 x 74 cm Beyeler Foundation, Riehen, Switzerland |
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| Claude Monet 1893 Break-Up of the Ice on the Seine, near Bennecourt oil on canvas 65 x 100 cm National Museums Liverpool, UK |
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| Claude Monet 1893 Floating Ice at Bennecourt oil on canvas 65 x 100 cm Private Collection |
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| Claude Monet 1893 Floating Ice at Bennecourt oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| Claude Monet 1893 Floating Ice at Bennecourt oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| Claude Monet 1893 Ice Floes oil on canvas 66 x 100.3 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Claude Monet 1893 The Seine at Bennecourt, Winter oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| Claude Monet 1894 Ice Floes, Misty Morning oil on canvas 65.7 x 100.3 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| Claude Monet 1893 Ice, Lock Port Villez oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm Private Collection |
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