Poppy Field (Giverny)
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
1890–91
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 61.2 × 93.4 cm (24 1/16 × 36 3/4 in.); Framed: 77.5 × 109.3 × 7 cm (30 1/2 × 43 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
In July 1890, Claude Monet began four almost identically scaled canvases showing poppy fields near his home in Giverny. Although he did not consider these to be a series, like the 25 paintings of stacks of wheat that he began shortly after the harvest that same summer, the works certainly show his growing interest in developing several canvases at once. They also demonstrate a far more homogeneous touch than the freely brushed landscapes of his earlier career, with surfaces that have a tapestry-like materiality.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
