This is an incomplete list of works by
Claude Monet (1840–1926), including nearly all the finished paintings but excluding the ''Water Lilies'',
which can be found here, and preparatory black and white sketches.
[ Biography of Claude Monet]
giverny.org. Retrieved 6 January 2007.
Monet was a founder of French
impressionist
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...
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.
[House, John, et al. (1998). ''Monet in the 20th Century''. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. p. 2.] The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting ''
Impression, Sunrise'' ().
What made Monet different from the other Impressionist painters was his innovative idea of creating Series paintings devoted to paintings of a single theme or subject. With the repetitious study of the subject at different times of day Monet's paintings show the effects of sunlight, time and weather through color and contrast. Monet's "Series paintings" are well known and notable, and include ''
Haystacks
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'', ''
Water Lilies'', ''
Rouen Cathedrals'', ''
Houses of Parliament'', ''
Charing Cross Bridge'', and ''
Poplar Trees''. His prodigious output of nearly 2000 paintings was catalogued by
Daniel Wildenstein in the .
Timeline
* 1862–1871 Paris. Visits to
Trouville (1870), London and Amsterdam (1871)
* 1870 Marriage to
Camille Doncieux
Camille-Léonie Doncieux (; 15 January 1847 – 5 September 1879) was the first wife of French painter Claude Monet, with whom she had two sons. She was the subject of a number of paintings by Monet, as well as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Édoua ...
.
* 1871–1878 Family life in
Argenteuil, near Paris. Visit to Amsterdam (1874)
* 1878 Living in Paris – Birth of Michel Monet
* 1878–1881 Living at
Vétheuil, 60 km north-west of Paris. Visit to
Fécamp.
* 1879 Death of Camille
* 1881–1883 Living at
Poissy, 25 km north-west of Paris.
* 1883 Living at
Vernon, Normandy
* 1883–1926 Living at
his home and garden complex in
Giverny, 80 km north west of Paris. Visits to
Bordighera (1884), Holland (1886),
Belle Île (1886),
Antibes
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The town of ...
(1888),
Creuse (1889),
Rouen
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(1892, 1893, 1894), Norway (1895), London (1900),
Venice
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(1908)
* 1892 Marriage to
Alice Hoschedé
* 1926 Death
Works 1858–1871 (Paris, London, Amsterdam)
* For Monet's ''Water Lilies'' works see
''Water Lilies'' (Monet series)
* ''All works listed are classified as'' Painting – oil on canvas ''except where described otherwise''.
Works 1872–1878 (Argenteuil)
Works 1878–1881 (Vétheuil)
Works 1881–1883 (Poissy)
Works 1884 (Bordighera, Italy)
Works 1884–1888 (Giverny)
Works 1888 (Antibes)
Works 1888–1898 (Giverny (continued))
Works 1899–1904 (London)
For Monet's ''Water Lilies'' see
''Water Lilies'' (Monet series)
Works 1900–1926 (Giverny (continued)) and Venice
For Monet's ''Water Lilies'' see
''Water Lilies'' (Monet series)
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{{Lists of paintings
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