Haystacks (Effect of Snow and Sun)
1891 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions : 25 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. (65.4 x 92.1 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Between 1890 and 1891 Monet devoted some thirty paintings to the haystacks in a field near his house at Giverny. In the midst of this effort, he wrote to the critic Gustave Geoffroy:
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Haystacks (Effect of Snow and Sun) (1891) by Claude Monet, oil on canvas, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
About Claude Monet
(November 1840 – 5 December 1926) Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting.
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