Musée d’Orsay · 1866
Women in the Garden
Claude Monet
Monet paints figures outdoors under real, changing daylight instead of studio lighting, an early step toward what would become Impressionism.
Why it matters
Monet paints figures outdoors under real, changing daylight instead of studio lighting, an early step toward what would become Impressionism.
Look closer
Look at the dappled shadow moving across the women's white dresses — Monet dug a trench in his garden just to paint this at true outdoor scale.
Painted almost entirely outdoors on a canvas over two metres tall, an unusually ambitious scale for a plein-air study at the time.
Value context
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