Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist)
Claude Monet
1897
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
89.9 × 92.7 cm (35 3/8 × 36 1/2 in.); Framed: 112.4 × 115.6 × 11.5 cm (44 1/4 × 45 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
16564
About the Artist
Claude Monet · 1840–1926
Claude Monet, born Oscar-Claude Monet on November 14, 1840, in Paris and raised in Le Havre, Normandy, began his artistic journey as a successful teenage caricaturist. His formal training started at the Le Havre secondary school of the arts in 1851, where he received his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard. Around 1858, he met Eugène Boudin, who became his pivotal mentor, introducin...