The Magpie, Monet
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| Author: | Claude Monet |
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| Original Title: | La Pie |
| Type: | Painting |
| Style: | Impressionism |
| Medium | Oil |
| Support: | Canvas |
| Year: | 1869 |
| Located: | Orsay Museum, París. |
Although the landscape is cold, Monet has endowed it with all kinds of warm nuances; the rays of sunlight bathe the brightest areas in yellow.
Monet and the Snow Landscapes
Snowy landscapes were a source of inspiration for Monet throughout his career. He painted in a unique way the lights and shadows over various frozen urban and rural settings. Notable works include: Boulevard des Capucines and Grainstacks in the Snow.
The Painting Today
The painting was acquired several times, being part of three private collections, until in 1984 it was purchased by the French national museums society.
Currently, The Magpie is part of the permanent collection of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.
Claude Monet painted the work The Magpie in 1869. For his contemporary colleagues, it represented a complete break from what had been done in Impressionist landscapes until then; the classical elements that had been included—flowers, fields, and portraits—remained unaltered up to that point.
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ARTIST DATA
Claude Monet
| Full Name: | Oscar-Claude Monet. |
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| Birth: | 1840, Paris, France. |
| Death: | 1926, Giverny, France. |
| Style: | Impressionism. |
Claude Monet, born in Paris in 1840, was a French painter and a central figure of Impressionism, a movement that irreversibly transformed the history of art. His work embodies the pure essence of this style: the exploration of light, atmosphere, and the fleeting moment. With a deeply observant eye and extraordinary mastery of color, Monet managed to capture in his canvases the vibration of the landscape and the immediate emotion of visual perception.
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