''The Artist's Garden at Giverny'' (French: ''Le Jardin de l'artiste à Giverny'') is an

oil on canvas Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments combined with a drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel, or copper for several centuries. ...

painting by

Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, ; ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his ...

done in 1900, now in the

Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) () is a museum in Paris, France, on the Rive Gauche, Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900. The museum holds mai ...

, Paris. It is one of many works by the artist of his garden at Giverny over the last thirty years of his life. The painting shows rows of irises 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 The Isis, River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At , it is the longest river entirely in England and the Longest rivers of the United Kingdom, s ...

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). His dealer

Durand-Ruel Paul Durand-Ruel (; 31 October 1831 – 5 February 1922) was a French art dealer associated with the Impressionism, Impressionists and the Barbizon school, Barbizon School. Being the first to support artists such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, ...

exhibited recent works, including a dozen Waterlilies and he bought his friend Renoir'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. In 2023, climate activists smeared red paint on the work while exhibited in Stockholm to put pressure on the Swedish government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.Activists against climate change vandalize a work of Monet in Stockholm
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Artist's Garden At Giverny Paintings by Claude Monet Oil on canvas paintings Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay Landscape paintings 1900 paintings Paintings of gardens

In the context of Monet's oeuvre

The garden

Comparable paintings

Exhibitions

See also

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