Claude Monet - The First of the Impressionists

88 Pages·1979·10.641 MB·English

by  Brian Petrie

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Claude Monet
THE FIRST OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS
Brian Petrie
Phaidon Oxford
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First published 1979
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1 (frontispiece). Photograph ofMonetinthe large studio
specially created for working on the Water-Lilies. About
1920. Collection Durand-Ruel.
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List of Plates
1 (frontispiece). Monet in his studio 36. Boulevarddes Capucines (detail of35)
2. TheLuncheon 37. Studio Boat
3. Bordighera 38. Spring, the River seen through the Branches
4. Caricature ofChampfleury 39. Impression, Sunrise
5. The Pianist 40. The Seine at Lavacourt
6. The Beach at Trouville 41. The Frost
7. Women in the Garden 42. Banks ofthe Seine, Vetheuil
8. The Mouth ofthe Seine at Honfleur 43. Snow at Argenteuil
9. Pointe de la Heve, at Low Tide 44. Train in the Snow
10. Portrait ofJ. F. Jacquemart 45. Boating on the Epte
11 Man with a Pipe 46. The Boat
12. Studies ofChildren 47. Gare Saint-Lazare
13. The Roadat Chailly 48. LePont de VEurope, Gare Saint-Lazare
14. Study for Dejeuner sur VHerbe
49. Cliffs at Etretat
15. Dejeuner sur VHerbe
50. The Cliff Walk, Etretat
16. Woman in the Green Dress (Camille)
51. The Manneporte, Etretat
17. Roadin the Forest with Wood-Gatherers 52. Le Cap Martin
18. LaJaponaise
53. Ventimiglia
19. Madame Gaudibert
54. M. Paul, the Pastry Cook atPourville
20. White Turkeys
21. The Promenade: Woman with a Parasol 55. Poly, Fisherman at Belle-Ile
56. Haystacks, Snow
22. Corner ofthe Pondat Montgeron
23. Detail of Corner ofthe Pondat Montgeron 57. Haystacks, Late Summer
58. Poplars on the Epte
24. Riverside at Bennecourt
25. Water-Lilies 59. Poplars, WindEffect
26. The Beach at Sainte-Adresse 60. Rouen Cathedral, Sunset
27. TheJetty at Le Havre 61. Waterloo Bridge, Cloudy Weather
28. La Grenouillere 62. Water-Lilies (Nympheas)
29. Meditation 63. The Water-Lily Pond
30. The PoolofLondon 64. Weeping Willow
31 Houses by the River Zaan 65. Stf/i Giorgio Maggiore, Twilight
32. Blue House at Zaandam 66. Trophies ofthe Chase
33. London, Houses ofParliament 67. /?etf" Mullets
34. Boulevarddes Capucines 68. /I Fiaje ofFlowers
35. Boulevarddes Capucines 69. Chrysanthemums
Select Bibliography
Theinterested readerandthe studentinsearchoffurther
reading on Monet will turn naturally to John Rewald's
monumental History of Impressionism (4th ed., New
York, 1973),withitsextensivebibliography.Ishouldlike,
however, to record my particular indebtedness to the
following works, without which this essay could not
have been written:
Gustave Geffroy, Claude Monet, sa Vie, son Temps, son
Oeuvre, Paris 1922
Jean-Pierre Hoschede, Claude Monet ce MaiConnu (two
volumes), Geneva 1960
Joel Isaacson, Monet: Le Dejeuner sur VHerbe, London
1972
Steven Z. Levine, Monet andhis Critics, New York and
London 1976
LionelloVenturi,LesArchivesdeVImpressionnisme,Paris
1939
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et
Catalogue Raisonne (Volume 1: Paintings 1840-1881),
Lausanne and Paris 1974