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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
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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 Hay is grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut and dried to be stored for use as animal fodder, either for large grazing animals raised as livestock, such as cattle, horses, goats, and sheep, or for smaller domesticated ...
'', '' 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 Antibes (, also , ; oc, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal, Antíbol) is a coastal city in the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France, department of southeastern France, on the French Riviera, Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice. The town of ...
(1888), Creuse (1889),
Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of ...
(1892, 1893, 1894), Norway (1895), London (1900),
Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400  ...
(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)


Further reading

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References


External links

* {{Lists of paintings Monet, Claude