Claude Monet

Claude Monet was born in Paris on 14 November 1840 and died in Giverny on 5 December 1926. Wikidata gives his full name in the English description as Oscar-Claude Monet, a French painter, with France as his citizenship and Impressionism as his movement. He is recorded as a painter and a graphic artist. The Art Institute of Chicago holds an artist page for him.

The English Wikipedia summary calls him a founder of Impressionism and a painter who tried to set down nature as he perceived it, especially out of doors. It says the name of the movement comes from his canvas Impression, Sunrise, shown in 1874 at the first Impressionist exhibition, which Monet and others organized as an alternative to the Salon. Wikidata’s list of notable works includes that sunrise picture, the Water Lilies, the Rouen Cathedral series, Garden at Sainte-Adresse, Women in the Garden, the Haystacks, and The Magpie. Across a long career he stayed with landscape and with the look of weather, water, and light.

The painting on this site is Water Lilies, 1906, oil on canvas, 89.9 by 94.1 centimeters. The Art Institute records the place as France, the style as Impressionism, and the credit as the Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1933.1157. The museum’s place field is France, not a garden town. Giverny is where Wikidata says Monet died. It is not stated on this canvas’s catalogue record as the place the picture was made, so this page does not assign the pond in the painting to a specific garden.

Water Lilies canvases are among the works most often attached to his name. This one is in Chicago, in the museum’s European painting collection, and it is the impression published here. Other sheets and canvases by him are spread across many public collections named on his Wikidata item.