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Haystack at Giverny  1886

by Claude Monet

Most of the second half of Monet's life was spent in and around Giverny, where the leader of the Impressionists was particularly drawn by the landscape of central France. He captured views of Giverny in numerous canvases. A year before he painted this work in 1886, Monet had already shown a field of poppies , but without the haystack. The Hermitage work is one of the first...
Size: 
60.5 x 81.5 cm
Medium: 
Oil on Canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons