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Claude Monet French
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 819
In November 1888, Van Gogh wrote: "Gauguin was telling me the other day—that he’d seen a painting by Claude Monet of sunflowers in a large Japanese vase, very fine. But—he likes mine better. I’m not of that opinion." Critics had earlier praised the "brio and daring" of Monet’s technique when he showed this still life, depicting sunflowers that grew along the pathway to his garden at Vétheuil, at the 1882 Impressionist exhibition.
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Fig. 1. Claude Monet, Garden at Vétheuil, 1881, oil on canvas, 39 ½ x 32 in. (Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena)
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Fig. 2. Claude Monet, Jerusalem Artichoke Flowers, 1880, oil on canvas, 39 3/16 x 28 3/4 in. (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
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Fig. 3. Vincent van Gogh, Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers, 1888, oil on canvas, 93 x 73 cm (National Gallery, London)
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Fig. 4. Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers in a Vase, 1888, oil on canvas, 91 x 71 cm (Neue Pinakothek, Munich)
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Title: Bouquet of Sunflowers
Artist: Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny)
Date: 1881
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 39 3/4 x 32 in. (101 x 81.3 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Accession Number: 29.100.107
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American Impressionism
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Americans in Paris, 1860-1900
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Claude Monet (1840-1926)
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Impressionism: Art and Modernity
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Japonisme
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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
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The Transformation of Landscape Painting in France
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Édouard Manet (1832-1883)
Chronology
France, 1800-1900 A.D.
Museum Publications
Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection
Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence
"The Monets in the Metropolitan Museum": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 3 (1970)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 8, Modern Europe
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings
Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800–1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Impressionists in the Metropolitan": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 27, no. 1 (Summer, 1968)
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"The Impressionist Brush": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 32, no. 3 (1973–1974)
French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 3, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue
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