Claude Monet, French, 1840 - 1926

Oil on canvas

Most settled in Giverny, about Forty-five miles northwest of Paris, in 1883.

Although he took freguent trips, venturing as far as London and Venice, it was the landscape within a two-mile radins of his home that captured his attention for the rest of his life.

With his famous "Haystacks" picture, begun in 1890.

Monet begun to paint in series, after working on several canvases at once in order to capture the scene in changing light and weather condition.

During the summer and fall of 1891, he painted a series of canvases dipicting the poplars along the Epte River, about a mile from his house.

Because he did not paint the poplars from the opposite bank but instead from a boat in the middle of the river, we cannot see the top of the four threes nearest ------- only the vertical lines of their slender trunks.

Furthermore, were in not for the horizontal of the riverbank, the tree trunks would be indistinguishable from their reflection of the water.