Monet’s Painting and
Gardening at Giverny
Eric T. Haskell, Professor of French Studies and
Interdisciplinary Humanities and Director of the
Clark Humanities Museum, Scripps College.
This lecture explores the relationship between
Claude Monet’s gardening practices and painterly
techniques, and how these two elements came
together in his famous series of landscape paintings
made near his home at Giverny. This illustrated
presentation highlights the Metropolitan Museum’s
Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies (1899) as well as
dozens of other canvases made by the Impressionist
master from the 1890s until his death in 1926. |