Impressionism · 1875
Claude Monet 1840–1926
National Gallery of Art · Washington
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Monet painted this in eighteen seventy-five: sky filling half the canvas, grass trembling with movement, a woman and child at the crest of a hill. The woman is Camille, his wife; below her, their seven-year-old son Jean. Setting his easel low, Monet made them tower against the clouds — intimate, monumental.
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