Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Claude Monet
(1840 - 1926)  

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which was exhibited in 1874 at the First Impressionist Exhibition, initiated by Monet and a number of like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet


The Coalmen
circa 1875
Oil on canvas
66 x 54 cm
Musee d’Orsay, Paris
https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/les-dechargeurs-de-charbon-69336 

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