Amazon eBay: claude monet (1840-1926) biographical and background information 1. born in paris; worked there and in argenteuil, vetheuil, and after 1883 in giverny; traveled to london and venice; exhibited with the impressionists 1874-82. 2. paris in the 19th century: exploration of bourgeois life, the “modern” city. 3. the roles of the salon, art critic and art dealer. selected works 4. plein air painting and impressionism a. women in the garden, 1867 (oil on canvas, 8.4’ x 6.7’, musée d' orsay, paris) b. terrace at sainte-adresse, 1867 (oil on canvas, 3’2” x 4’2”, mma) c. the river, 1868 (oil on canvas, 2’7 7/8” x 3’3 3/8”, art institute of chicago) d. la grenouillère, 1869 (oil on canvas, 2’5” x 3’2”, mma) i. comparison: auguste renoir, la grenouillère, 1869 (oil on canvas, 2.2’ x 2.6’, national museum, stockholm) e. impression, sunrise, 1872 (oil on canvas,1’8” x 2’2”, musée marmottan, paris) f. bridge at argenteuil, 1874 (oil on canvas, 2’ x 2’8”, musée d' orsay, paris) g. vetheuil in summer, 1880 (oil on canvas, 2’2” x 3’4”, mma) 5. paris and the modern city: a. boulevard des capucines, 1873 (oil on canvas, 2’8” x 2’, nelson- atkins museum of art, kansas city) b. paintings of the gare-saint-lazare, 1876-77 (oil on canvas) 6. series paintings: a. étretat, 1883-5 (oil on canvas, one at mma) b. haystacks, 1889-93 (oil on canvas, one at mma) c. poplars, 1890-91 (oil on canvas, one at mma) d. rouen cathedral, 1892-94 (oil on canvas, one at mma) e. houses of parliament, london, 1903-4 (oil on canvas, one at mma) 7. late works: a. water lilies, c. 1920 (three canvases, each 6’6” x 14’, moma) b. japanese footbridge, 1920-22 (oil on canvas, 2’11” x 3’10”, moma) 8. comparisons: a. edouard manet, claude monet in his boat, 1874 (oil on canvas, 2’8 .” x 3’5”, neue pinakothek, munich) b. auguste renoir i. monet painting in his garden at argenteuil, 1873 (oil on canvas, 1’6” x 2’, wadsworth atheneum museum of art, hartford) ii. bathers, 1884-87 (oil on canvas, 3’10” x 5’7”, philadelphia museum of art)