Flowering Garden at Sainte-Adresse

Date: c. 1866
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Dimensions: 65 x 54

Monet painted Blooming garden in Sainte-Adresse either in 1866 or in 1867, when he spent summer in this village. It lies near the city Le Havre, where Monet lived in his youth. At this early stage of his career he spent time with friends and together they were trying to find different ways to capture modern life. The image was created with a very clear and strong colors, showing rather small, but very significantly selected corner of the garden. From the same period comes the picture Terrace at Sainte-Adresse , using the very similar work with colors and brush.

Prevailing color of this fine art print is green and its shape is portrait. Original size is 65 x 54. This art piece is located in Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Claude Oscar Monet (1840-1926). A native Parisian, who thoroughly developed the idea of Impressionism. Monet almost scientifically studied the effect of light on different objects. He devoted himself to so called transitory states, which quickly led him to work with colour and light, his paintings acting on the viewer from the first impression. His use of open-air painting and objects which were special only because of light opened the way for the beginnings of modern painting. Monet’s Impression, Sunrise (1874) not only gave the name to the whole art movement, but secured Monet a place among the best painters of all times. At one time, he resided in London and created his famous study Houses of Parliament (Monet wondered, How could the English painters paint Parliament when it cannot be seen for the fog?). In the Giverny, which became his favourite retreat after the death of his wife, he painted motifs from his garden and the popular series Water Lilies - the world of the water was as poetic and mysterious as a primordial paradise.