''The Artist's Garden at Giverny'' (French: ''Le Jardin de l'artiste à Giverny'') is an
oil on canvas
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest o ...
painting by
Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. Durin ...
done in 1900, now in the
Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
It is one of many works by the artist of his garden at
over the last thirty years of his life. The painting shows rows of
iris
Iris most often refers to:
*Iris (anatomy), part of the eye
*Iris (mythology), a Greek goddess
* ''Iris'' (plant), a genus of flowering plants
* Iris (color), an ambiguous color term
Iris or IRIS may also refer to:
Arts and media
Fictional ent ...
es in various shades of purple and pink set diagonally across the picture plane. The flowers are under trees that in allowing dappled light through change the tone of their colours. Beyond the trees is a glimpse of Monet's house.
In the context of Monet's oeuvre
Monet was 60 years old the year he completed this painting, and had produced an immense body of work. He had become extraordinarily successful as well as famous.
By this time, he was analysing what he saw more and more until, according to William Seitz, "subject, sensation and pictorial object have all but become identical".
In 1900, the year of this painting, he embarked on two major projects—a series of the
River Thames
The River Thames ( ), known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At , it is the longest river entirely in England and the second-longest in the United Kingdom, after the R ...
in London and another series of his water gardens in Giverny, including some of his famous paintings of waterlilies, such as ''The Waterlily Pond'' (now in the
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works ...
).
His dealer
Durand-Ruel
Paul Durand-Ruel (31 October 1831, Paris – 5 February 1922, Paris) was a French art dealer associated with the Impressionists and the Barbizon School. Being the first to support artists such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste ...
exhibited recent works, including a dozen Waterlilies
and he bought his friend
Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Re ...
's painting ''Mosque (Arabian Festival)''.
The garden
Monet worked on and developed the garden that is the subject of the painting from the end of 1883 until the end of his life.
Comparable paintings
Exhibitions
As well as in France, ''Le Jardin de l'artiste à Giverny'' has been exhibited in Australia, Belgium, Korea, Italy, Japan, Switzerland and the United States.
See also
*
List of paintings by Claude Monet
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.[Water Lilies
''Water Lilies'' (or ''Nymphéas'', ) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict his flower garden at his home in Giverny, and were the main focus of his artisti ...]
'' (Monet series)
References
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Paintings by Claude Monet