Vétheuil
Claude Monet
1901
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
90 × 93 cm (36 7/16 × 36 5/8 in.); Framed: 102.3 × 105.1 × 7 cm (40 1/4 × 41 3/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
16579
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...