Gardens of the Sunlight

Monet Reading
Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Claude Monet is generally considered to be the most outstanding figure among Impressionists. The term Impressionism derives from his picture Impression: Sunrise. A title was needed in a hurry for the catalogue of the exhibition in 1874. Monet suggested simply Impression, and the catalogue editor, Renoir's brother Edouard, added an explanatory Sunrise. The artist was not to know that because of criticism which seized upon the first word he had given the entire movement its name. Louis Leroy in the magazine Le Charivari scoffed at the Monet's painting using for the first time in the history the term Impressionists.
Monet analysed in his paintings the effects of changing light; in order to capture changing conditions he painted entire series of pictures, transforming Nature into art.

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	*The Women in the Garden,*1866-67, 255x205cm. Paris, Musee d'Orsay. Click here to buy this print
	*The Magpie,* 1868-69. Paris, Musee d'Orsay. Click here to buy this print
	*La Grenouillere,* 1869, 75x100cm. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
	*The Hotel des Roches Noires at Trouville,* 1870, 80x55cm. Paris, Musee d'Orsay. Click here to buy this print
	*Impression: Sunrise,* 1873, 48x63cm. Paris, Musee Marmottan. Click here to buy this print
	*Poppies near Argenteuill,* 1873, 50x65cm. Paris, Musee d'Orsay. Click here to buy this print
	*Boulevard des Capucines,* 1873, 79x59cm. Kansas City, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. Click here to buy this print
	*Monet's Garden in Argenteuil*, 1873, 61x82cm. Private collection. Click here to buy this print
	*The Studio Boat,* 1874, 50x64cm. Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller.
	*The Highway Bridge at Argenteuil,* 1874, 60x80cm. Washington, National Gallery of Art. Click here to buy this print
	*The Bridge at Argenteuil,* 1874, 60x80cm. Paris, Musee d'Orsay. Click here to buy this print
	*Fishing Boats Leaving the Harbor, Le Havre,* 1874. Private collection.
	*La Promenade, Woman with a Parasol,* 1875, 100x81cm. Washington, National Gallery of Art. Click here to buy this print
	*La Japonaise (Madame Monet in Japanese Costume),* 1876, 231x142cm. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
	*Gare Saint-Lazare,* 1877. London, National Gallery.
	*Springtime Through the Branches*, 1878, 52x63cm. Paris, Musee Marmottan. Click here to buy this print
	*The Sunflowers,* 1881. Newy York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click here to buy this print
	*Monet's Garden at Vetheuil,* 1881, 150x120cm. Washington, National Gallery of Art. Click here to buy this print
	*Woman with a Parasol,* 1886, 131x88cm. Paris, Musee d'Orsay. Click here to buy this print
	*Monet's Garden at Giverny, Irises,* 1900, 81x92cm. Paris, Musee d'Orsay.
	*The Garden in Flowers,* 1900. Private collection.
	*Rouen Cathedral,* 1894.


*Japanese bridge.*
	1899, 90x92cm. London, National Gallery. Click here to buy this print
	1899, 93x74cm. New York, The Metropolitan Musuem of Art. Click here to buy this print
	1899, 89x93,5cm. Paris, Musee d'Orsay. Click here to buy this print
	1900, 89x93cm. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
*Waterlilies.*
	1903, 75x105cm. Private collection.
	1905. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
	1906, 88x93cm. The Art Institute of Chicago. Click here to buy this print
	1916-23. Paris, Orangerie. Click here to buy this print
*London. The Houses of Parliament*
	*Effet de Brouillard,* 1904, 83x93cm. Sankt Petersburg, Hermitage.
	*Houses of Parliament, Sun Breaking Through the Fog*, 1904, 81x92cm. Paris, Musee d'Orsay.
	*Houses of Parliament at Sunset,* 1904. Private collection. Click here to buy this print
	1905, 81x92cm Paris, Musee Marmottan.

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