Saturday 9 November 2013

Claude Monet - part 14 1883 - 1884

Stereoscopic autochrome of Monet in his garden 
by Étienne Clémentel c1917

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 - 13 also.

This is part 14 of a 27-part series on the works of Claude Monet:



Claude Monet 1883 Fishing Boats and the Porte d'Aval 
oil on canvas 73 x 100 cm 
Wallfar-Ricjartz-Museum, Cologne

Claude Monet 1883 Rough Sea at Etretat 
oil on canvas 81 x 100 cm 
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France

Claude Monet 1883 Port d'Aval, Rough Sea 
oil on canvas

Claude Monet 1883 The Manneport, Cliff at Étretat 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1881 Morning at Étretat
oil on canvas 63 x 81 cm
Private Collection


Claude Monet 1883 Receding Waves 
oil on canvas
 Private Collection

Claude Monet 1883 Rough Weather at Étretat 
oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm 
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Claude Monet 1883 The Beach at Étretat 
oil on canvas 66 x 81.2 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Claude Monet 1883 Islets at Port-Villez 
oil on canvas 65.6 x 93 cm
 Private Collection

Claude Monet 1883 Landscape at Port-Villez 
oil on canvas
 Private Collection

Claude Monet 1883 The Seine at Port-Villez 
oil on canvas 60.5 x 100.5 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1883 Landscape near Monte Carlo
oil on canvas


Claude Monet 1883 Peaches 
oil on canvas 50.5 x 37 cm
 Private Collection

Claude Monet 1883 Red and Pink Poppies
 oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1883 Red Azaleas in a Pot 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1883 Vase of Dahlias 
oil on canvas 128.5 x 37 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1883 White Poppy 
oil on canvas 117.5 x 37.2 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1883 The Manneport, Seen from Below ( Étretat ) 
oil on canvas 72 x 91 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1883 The Manneporte ( Étretat ) 
oil on canvas 65.4 x 81.3 cm 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Claude Monet 1883 The Needle of Étretat, Low Tide 
oil on canvas 60 x 81 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1883 The Towpath at Grainval 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1883 Three Pots of Tulips
 oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1883 Vase of Poppies 
oil on canvas 
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Claude Monet 1883 View of Rouen 
chalk on paper 31.3 x 47.5 cm 
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA

Claude Monet 1883 View of the Church at Vernon 
oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm 
Yamagata Museum of Art, Japan

Claude Monet 1883 Windmill at Zaandam 
black crayon and scratch-work on Gillot paper 14.5 x 29 cm

Claude Monet 1884 Arm of the Jeufosse, Autumn 
oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1884 Banks of the Seine at Jeufosse: Clear Weather 
oil on canvas 81 x 59.7 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1884 Arm of the Siene at Jeufosse, Afternoon 
oil on canvas

Claude Monet 1884 Cliffs at Les Petites-Dalles 
oil on canvas 59.3 x 73.3 cm 
The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC

Claude Monet 1884 At Les Petit-Dalles
 oil on canvas 66 x 82 cm
 Private Collection

Claude Monet 1884 Banks of the Seine at Jeufosse, Autumn 
oil on canvas 54.6 x 73.5 cm
 Private Collection

Claude Monet 1884 Haystacks at Giverny 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1884 Haystacks, Overcast Day 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Early in 1884, Claude Monet travelled to Bordighera, a town on the Italian Riviera, close to the border between Italy and France, for a working visit of three weeks that turned into nearly three months. In a letter to the sculptor Auguste Rodin describing his efforts to translate into paint the brilliant Mediterranean light, Monet declared he was "fencing, wrestling, with the sun." In other letters, he complained of the impossibility of finding a motif due to the abundant vegetation.


Claude Monet 1884 Bordighera 
oil on canvas 60 x 63 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1884 Bordighera 
oil on canvas 64.8 x 81.3 cm 
Art Institute Chicago, IL

Claude Monet 1884 Burgo Marina at Bordighera 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1884 Branch of Lemons 
oil on canvas
 Private Collection

Claude Monet 1884 Bridge at Dolceacqua 
oil on canvas 65 x 81.6 cm 
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA

Claude Monet 1884 Castel Dolce 
oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm 
Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris

Claude Monet 1884 Dolceacqua 
oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1884 Cap Martin 
oil on canvas 65 x 82 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1884 Cap Martin 
oil on canvas 68 x 82 cm
 Musee des Beaux Arts de Tournai, Belgium

Claude Monet 1884 Cap Martin 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1884 Cap Martin, near Menton 
oil on canvas 67.2 x 81.6 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Claude Monet 1884 A Palm Tree at Bordighera 
oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1884 Garden in Bordighera, Impression of Morning 
oil on canvas 65.5 x 81.5 cm 
Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Claude Monet 1884 Gardener's House at Bordighera 
oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm 
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

Claude Monet 1884 Gardener's House at Bordighera 
oil on canvas

Claude Monet 1884 Grove of Olive Trees in Bordighera 
oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm
 Private Collection

Claude Monet 1884 Grove of Olive Trees in the Moreno Garden 
oil on canvas 65.5 x 81.5 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1884 Monte Carlo seen from Roquebrune 
oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm 
Portland Museum of Art, Oregon

Claude Monet 1884 The Monte Carlo Road 
oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm
 Collection Samir Traboulsi

Claude Monet 1884 Moreno Garden at Bordighera
 oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm 
Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida