How are you?
Currently, I am introducing
the stories about various artists and their paintings with the title
“Interesting Art Stories”.
The 76th story is “Garden at
Sainte-Adresse” by Claude Monet.
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| Claude Monet |
The “Garden at Sainte-Adresse” is a painting
by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet. Monet spent the summer of
1867 with his family at Sainte-Adresse, a seaside resort near Le Havre, France.
In this painting, he painted his father and other relatives as models, in a
garden with a view of Honfleur on the horizon.
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| Régates à Sainte-Adresse, Claude Monet (1867) |
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| Le Havre (September 2019) |
Although this painting shows a scene of
wealthy family, it is by no means a portrait of a harmonious family. This is
because Monet's relationship with his father was tense that summer, because of
his family's objection to his marriage to Camille Doncieux, his wife-to-be.
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| Camille Doncieux |
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| Camille (The Woman in a Green Dress), Claude Monet (1866) |
In his letter, Monet called this painting
"the Chinese painting in which there are flags" and his friend
Pierre-Auguste Renoir called it as "the Japanese painting". The
horizontal layers of colors that make up this painting are reminiscent of the
Japanese color wood-block prints, which were eagerly collected by Monet, Manet,
Renoir, Whistler and other colleagues. The print that appears to have inspired
this painting is “Turban-shell Hall of the Five-Hundred-Rakan Temple (1830)”,
the Woodblock print by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.
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| Turban-shell Hall of the Five-Hundred-Rakan Temple, Katsushika Hokusai (1830) |
In this painting, Monet emphasized the
two-dimensionality of the painting by using the elevated vantage and relatively
even sizes of the horizontal areas.
The painting was exhibited at the 4th
Impressionist exhibition in Paris from 10 April to 11 May 1879 under the title
“Jardin à Sainte-Adresse”.
The painting was acquired by the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York City through an auction sale at Christie's in
December 1967.
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| Entrance façade of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) |
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| The logo of the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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