The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil
Claude Monet
1881
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 151.5 x 121 cm (59 5/8 x 47 5/8 in.) framed: 177.8 x 147.3 x 9.5 cm (70 x 58 x 3 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Accession Number
1970.17.45
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...