Claude Monet and Normandy
Title: The Seine at Giverny, Morning Mists, 1897
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 35 x 36 in. (88.9 x 91.4 cm)
Purchased with funds from the Sarah Graham Kenan Foundation
and the North Carolina Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest), 1975
(75.24.1)
Permanent Collection: North Carolina Museum of Art
Image Courtesy: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
A Lifetime of Sublime Inspiration
Title: Port of le Havre, 1874
(also known as (View of the Old Outer Harbor at Le Havre)
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 23-3/4 x 40-1/8 inches
Signed lower left: Claude Monet
Permanent Collection: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Image Courtesy: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Normandy inspired Claude Monet. He grew up in the port town of Le Havre, moving there from his birthplace, Paris, with his family when he was a small boy. Throughout
his long career he created hundreds of scenes celebrating the Norman Province.
Title: The Beach at Trouville, 1870
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 31-1/2 x 25-1/8 inches
Permanent Collection: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford,
The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection
Image Courtesy: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
An exhibition has been organized to showcase this large subject matter among Monet's numerous artworks. It features fifty-three of Monet's impressionist paintings. These
works defined modern Normandy at the turn of the 20th century. Surprisingly, this is the first exhibition specific to Monet's artistic relationship with Normandy.
Title: The Cliff, Etretat, Sunset, 1883
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 23 13/16 x 32 3/16 in. (60.5 x 81.8 cm)
Purchased with funds from the State of North Carolina, 1967
(67.24.1)
Permanent Collection: North Carolina Museum of Art
Image Courtesy: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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These works were created over a 60 year period from the 1860s, before the
Impressionists' exhibitions began, through to the mid-1920s nearing the end of Monet's life. For 43 of these years
Monet made his home at Giverny. The diverse subject matter includes beaches, villages, rivers, agriculture,
tourist industries and Rouen, the capital city of Normandy.
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Title: Rouen Cathedral Façade and Tour d’Albane (Morning Effect) , 1891
(also known as Rouem Cathedral: The Portal and the Tour l’Albane at Dawn)
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 41-3/4 x 29-1/8 inches
Signed and dated lower left: Claude Monet 94
Image Courtesy: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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Title: Water Lilies, 1914–1917
(also known as Red Nymphéas)
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 7 0-3/4 x 57-5/8 inches
Permanent Collection: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Mildred Anna Williams Collection
Image Courtesy: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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Included will be some of the fabulous images around Monet's home and of his famous Giverny water gardens.
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Title: The Garden at Saint-Adresse, 1867
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 38-1/8 x 51 –1/8 inches
Permanent Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Image Courtesy: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Throughout his life Monet enjoyed a special relationship with Normandy. It was there he met Eugene Boudin and first began to paint thanks to Boudin's influence. His love of the Norman
province is reflected as it inspired him in his works.
Title: The church at Varengeville, 1882
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 23-3/4 x 32 inches
Signed and dated lower left: Claude Monet 82
Permanent Collection: Columbus Museum of Art
Image Courtesy: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
As one of the leaders of the Impressionist move the light and color variations of the countryside was captured in his paintings.
Title: Customs House at Varengeville, 1882
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 26 x 32 inches
Signed and dated loser right: 82 Claude Monet
Permanent Collection: Brooklyn Museum
Image Courtesy: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Thanks to Boudin Monet developed a love for painting en plein air and passed this on to Manet.
Title: Wheat Field, 1881
(also known as Field of Corn)
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 25-7/16 x 31-7/8 inches
Permanent Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon
Image Courtesy: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Monet made glorious images of the of the Le Havre harbor, river banks such as the Eptre, the crashing waves at Etretat and
Man-made monuments, for example the Rouen Cathedral. These subjects figure largely in Monet’s oeuvre and are an important inclusion in an exhibit exploring
his unique relationship with Normandy.
Title: The Needle Rock and the Porte d’Aval, Étretat, 1885
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 25-9/16 x 32 inches
Signed and dated loser left: Claude Monet 85
Permanent Collection: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Image Courtesy: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The picturesque Norman province was the first area of France that was exploited for tourism. Before Monet's works the area was often visited specifically to inspire
artists dominating the “Voyages pittoresques” of the 1830s. Certainly Monet would have been familiar with these works spending all but five years of his
life in the area. He was nurtured in its artistic community. The natural scenery and seasonal weather was a perfect fit for an artist who would be known
for his fascination with the effects of light, season and time.
Title: Low Tide at Pourville, near Dieppe, 1882
(also known as Low Tide at Pourville)
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 3-3/4 32 inches
Signed amd dated lower right: 82 Claude Monet
Permanent Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon
Image Courtesy: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Among many other accolades Monet was known for his series several of which are reflective of the countryside and are a natural inclusion in Monet in Normandy; wheat stacks and
the Rouen Cathedral series.
Title: Custonshouse, Varengeville, 1882
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 25-3/5 x 32 inches
Signed and dated lower left: Claude Monet 82
Permanent Collection: Philadelphia Museum of Art, William L. Elklns Collection
Image Courtesy: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The exhibit opens at the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco before traveling to the North Carolina Museum of Art with its final showing
at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
The exhibit Monet in Normandy is accompanied by an exquisitely illustrated
catalogue filled with beautiful renditions of Monet's breathtaking paintings.
Title: The Cliff Walk, Pourville, 1882
(also known as Walk on the Cliff, Pourville)
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 26-1/8 x 32-7/16 inches
Signed and dated lower left: Claude Monet 82
Permanent Collection: Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Image Courtesy: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Claude Monet and Normandy
Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco:
through September 17, 2006
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh:
October 15, 2006 - January 14, 2007
Cleveland Museum of Art:
February 18 - May 20, 2007
Title: Road at La Cavée, Pourville, 1882
(also known as The Path of La Cavée, Pourville)
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:25-3/4 x 32-1/8 inches
Permanent Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Bequest of Mrs. Susan Mason Loring
Image Courtesy: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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