Saturday, 23 November 2013

Claude Monet - part 21 1894 - 1897




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 - 20 also.

This is part 21 of a 27-part series on the works of Claude Monet:



Claude Monet 1894 Church at Vernon in the Fog 
oil on canvas 
Sammlung Rosengart Art Museum Lucerne, Switzerland

Claude Monet 1894 Church at Vernon, Fog 
oil on canvas 65 x 92 cm 
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont

Claude Monet 1894 Spring Landscape at Giverny 
oil on canvas 92 x 65 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1894 Spring Landscape 
oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1894 Spring Landscape 
oil on canvas

Claude Monet 1894 Spring, A Meadow at Giverny 
oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm 
Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey

Claude Monet 1894 The Seine at Port-Villes, Clear Weather 
oil on canvas 60.2 x 81.4 cm
 Private Collection

Claude Monet 1894 The Seine at Port-Villez 
oil on canvas 50.2 x 82.9 cm
 Private Collection

Claude Monet 1894 The Seine at Port-Villez 
oil on canvas 65.4 x 100.3 cm 
The National Gallery, London ( on loan from Tate )

Claude Monet 1894 The Seine at Port-Villez, Pink Effect 
oil on canvas 
Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris

Claude Monet 1894 The Siene near Vernon
 oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1894c Church at Vernon 
oil on canvas 66 x 95.1 cm 
Brooklyn Museum, New York

Claude Monet 1895 In the Garden 
oil on canvas 81.5 x 92 cm 
Foundation E.G. Bührle, Zurich, Switzerland

Sandvika, Norway 1895

Monet visited Sandvika in Norway in early 1895. During his stay he painted several vies of the town and the surrounding landscape, with the mountain Ridge Kolsas featuring in many of the paintings, either in the background or as the primary subject. Perhaps the best known of the paintings is “Sandviken Village in Snow” which features the Løkke bridge in the foreground and Kolsas in the background. The bridge still stands in Sandvika today.



Claude Monet 1895 Houses in the Snow, Norway 
oil on canvas 61 x 84 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1895 Houses in the Snow, Norway 
oil on canvas 66 x 92.8 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1895 Landscape of Norway, the Blue Houses 
oil on canvas 
Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris

Claude Monet 1895 Mount Kolsaas in Clear Weather 
oil on canvas 65 x 100 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1895 Mount Kolsaas in Misty Weather 
oil on canvas
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1895 Mount Kolsaas, Norway 
oil on canvas 65 x 100 cm 
Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris 

Claude Monet 1895 Mount Kolsaas, Norway 
oil on canvas 65 x 100 cm 
Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris 

Claude Monet 1895 Mount Kolsaas, Norway 
oil on canvas 65.1 x 100 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1895 Mount Kolsaas, Rose Reflection 
oil on canvas 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Claude Monet 1895 Mount Kolsaas, Sunlight Effect 
oil on canvas 65 x 100 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1895 Red Houses at Bjornegaard in the Snow, Norway 
oil on canvas 
Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris

Claude Monet 1895 Sandviken Village in Snow, Norway ( aka Sandvika, Norway ) 
oil on canvas 73.4 x 92.5 cm 
Art Institute Chicago, IL

Claude Monet 1895 Sandvika, Norway 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection 

Claude Monet 1895 Sandvika, Norway 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1895 The Banks of the Fjord at Christiania 
oil on canvas 64.8 x 91.4 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1895 The Fjord, near Christiania 
oil on canvas 65.4 x 100.4 cm 
Private Collection


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Claude Monet 1895 Poppy Field near Giverny 
oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Claude Monet 1896 A Cliff near Dieppe 
oil on canvas 65 x 92 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1896-97 Val-Saint-Nicholas, Morning 
oil on canvas 65.1 x 100 cm 
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC


Claude Monet 1892? Cliff at Petit Ailly, at Varengeville 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1896 On the Cliff at Port Petit Ailly 
oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm 
Private Collection


Claude Monet 1896 Cliff at Pourville 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection 

Claude Monet 1896 Cliff at Pourville 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1896 Cliffs at Pourville, Rain 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection


Claude Monet 1896 Flood Waters 
oil on canvas 71 x 91.5 cm 
The National Gallery, London

Claude Monet 1896-97 Flood at Giverny 
oil on canvas


Morning on the Seine 1896-97

Begun in 1896, Monet's "Morning on the Seine" series was not completed until 1897 due to bad weather. Having sought out views along the river, Monet then executed the paintings from his studio boat. For an extended period he rose at dawn in order to catch the changing effects of the light as the sun rose. Later he lined up the paintings on easels in his studio to complete them as a series. Fifteen of the works were exhibited at Galerie Georges Petit in 1898.

Claude Monet 1896-97 Early Morning on the Siene 
oil on canvas 81 x 92 cm
 Private Collection

Claude Monet 1896-97 Morning on the Seine near Giverny 
oil on canvas 

Claude Monet 1896-97 Morning on the Seine near Giverny 
oil on canvas 

Claude Monet 1897 Arm of the Seine near Giverny
 oil on canvas 73.2 x 93 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Claude Monet 1896-97 Morning on the Seine near Giverny 
oil on canvas 93 x 73.7 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Claude Monet 1896-97 Morning on the Seine near Giverny, the Fog 
oil on canvas

Claude Monet 1896-97 Morning on the Seine 
oil on canvas 

Claude Monet 1896-97 Morning on the Seine
 oil on canvas

Claude Monet 1897 Branch of the Seine near Giverny ( Mist ) 
oil on canvas 89.9 x 92.7 cm 
Art Institute Chicago, IL

Claude Monet 1897 Misty Morning on the Seine, Mauve 
oil on canvas


Claude Monet 1897 Misty Morning on the Seine, Sunrise 
oil on canvas

Claude Monet 1897 Morning on the Seine in the Rain
 oil on canvas

Claude Monet 1897 Morning on the Seine near Giverny
 oil on canvas 81.3 x 92.7 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Claude Monet 1897 Morning on the Seine 
oil on canvas

Claude Monet 1897 Morning on the Seine, Clear Weather 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1897 Morning on the Seine, Mist 
oil on canvas