Claude Monet
1840-1926
His career path
In 1883, Monet moved into his property in Giverny, Normandy. It was at this time that he developed the representation of certain subjects in the form of series: haystacks, poplar trees, Rouen Cathedral, and so on.
From the late 1890s until his death in 1926, the painter devoted himself mainly to the Water Lilies cycle, a unique set of which is exhibited in the Musée de l'Orangerie. The artist designed several works specially for the building, and gave the Nation his first two large panels as a symbol of peace on 12 November 1918, the day after the armistice.He also designed a unique space within the museum made up of two elliptical rooms which, as he put it, give the spectator the "illusion of an endless whole, of a wave without horizon and without shore", making the Water Lilies in the Orangerie an element created by the artist that is not found anywhere else in the world.
Water Lilies Room at the musée de l'Orangerie
Water Lilies: Clear Morning with Willows. © GrandPalaisRmn (Musée de l'Orangerie) / Michel Urtado
Water Lilies: Clouds. © GrandPalaisRmn (Musée de l'Orangerie) / Michel Urtado
Water Lilies: Morning. © GrandPalaisRmn (Musée de l'Orangerie) / Michel Urtado
Water Lilies: Green Reflections. © GrandPalaisRmn (Musée de l'Orangerie) / Michel Urtado
Water Lilies: Sunset. © GrandPalaisRmn (Musée de l'Orangerie) / Michel Urtado
Claude Monet
Did you know ?
Claude Monet, famous for his hazy light-infused landscapes, was so passionate about light and its variations that he went so far as to paint several versions of the same subject at different times of the day. A famous anecdote says that sometimes he set up several canvases side by side outside, changing them as the light changed to capture the moment with the utmost precision. As he painted his series of Haystacks, in this way he moved from one to the other following the sun, transforming each canvas into a single moment of the day. This obsession with light made a deep impression on his work and made him one of the forerunners of Impressionism.
" I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house, the boat are found. The beauty of the air where they are, and it’s nothing other but impossible. "
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