![]() ![]() ![]() His first series exhibited as such was of Haystacks, painted from different points of view and at different times of the day. Beginning in the 1880s and 1890s, through the end of his life in 1926, Monet worked on "series" paintings, in which a subject was depicted in varying light and weather conditions. Within a few years by 1899 Monet built a greenhouse and a second studio, a spacious building, well lit with skylights. By November 1890 Monet was prosperous enough to buy the house, the surrounding buildings and the land for his gardens. The family worked and built up the gardens and Monet's fortunes began to change for the better as his dealer Paul Durand-Ruel had increasing success in selling his paintings. The house was close enough to the local schools for the children to attend and the surrounding landscape offered an endless array of suitable motifs for Monet's work. There was a barn that doubled as a painting studio, orchards and a small garden. The house was situated near the main road between the towns of Vernon and Gasny at Giverny. Following the death of her estranged husband, Alice Hoschedé married Claude Monet in 1892.Īt the beginning of May 1883, Monet and his large family rented a house and two acres from a local landowner. In April 1883 they moved to Vernon, then to a house in Giverny, Eure, in Upper Normandy, where he planted a large garden where he painted for much of the rest of his life. From the doorway of the little train between Vernon and Gasny he discovered Giverny. In 1881 all of them moved to Poissy which Monet hated. ![]() In the spring of 1880 Alice Hoschedé and all the children left Paris and rejoined Monet still living in the house in Vétheuil. They were Blanche, Germaine, Suzanne, Marthe, Jean-Pierre, and Jacques. After her husband (Ernest Hoschedé) became bankrupt, and left in 1878 for Belgium, in September 1879, and while Monet continued to live in the house in Vétheuil Alice Hoschedé helped Monet to raise his two sons, Jean and Michel, by taking them to Paris to live alongside her own six children. Both families then shared a house in Vétheuil during the summer. After he finished the series he sold the trees back to the lumber merchant who wanted them.In 1878 the Monets temporarily moved into the home of Ernest Hoschedé, (1837-1891), a wealthy department store owner and patron of the arts. At a certain point, Monet was forced into buying the trees because he still wasn't finished with his paintings. The trees, which actually belonged to the commune of Limetz, were put up for auction before Monet had completed all of his paintings. There were three groups of paintings - in one group the paintings have towering Poplars that go off the top edge of the canvas, in another group, there are seven trees and in another group three or four Poplars on the banks of the Epte River near Giverny. The trees were along the riverside in single file, following along an S-curve. To reach his floating painting studio that was moored in a place he went by small boat up the nearby waterway to where it joined the mainstream. The trees were in a marsh along the banks of the Epte River a few kilometers upstream from Monet's home and studio. The Poplars series paintings were made by Claude Monet in the summer and fall of 1891. 1891 series of paintings by Claude Monet The Four Trees, (Four Poplars on the Banks of the Epte River near Giverny), 1891, Metropolitan Museum of Art ![]()
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