Flower Beds at Vétheuil by Claude Monet - 1881 - 92.1 x 73.3 cm Museum of Fine Arts Boston Flower Beds at Vétheuil by Claude Monet - 1881 - 92.1 x 73.3 cm Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Flower Beds at Vétheuil

Oil on canvas • 92.1 x 73.3 cm
  • Claude Monet - 14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926 Claude Monet 1881

Please look at the painting and try to guess what we are celebrating today.

On this day in 1840, Claude Monet was born. I like him so much that sometimes I think we have featured all of his works, and then all of a sudden, I find a painting that I have never seen before. During his long life (he died in 1926), Monet created around 2500 paintings. So, luckily, we will never use up his oeuvre!

In 1878, Monet moved to the town of Vétheuil, located west of Paris along the Seine River. The town offered him a retreat from urban life and the chance to nurture a riverbank garden, where he painted the climbing nasturtiums with bold swirls and splashes of orange, as seen in this composition. When a friend inquired about visiting Monet's studio in Vétheuil, the artist responded, "My studio! But I've never had one, and I can't understand how anyone could confine themselves to a room—perhaps for drawing, but certainly not for painting."

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