Haystacks_TheMET
Claude Monet French, 1840 – 1926
Haystacks (Effect of Snow and Sun), 1891
Ol on canvas
Signed and dated (lower left): Claude Monet 91
Between summer 1890 and winter 1891 Monet executed about thirty paintings of the haystacks in a field near his house at Giverny. In the midst of this effort, he wrote to the critic Gustave Geoffroy: “I am working very hard, struggling with a series of different effects (haystacks), but at this season the sun sets so fast I cannot follow it…The more I continue, the more I see that a great deal of work is necessary in order to succeed in rendering what I seek.” Although Monet had painted multiple versions of a single subject earlier, Haystacks was the first group that he exhibited as a series; in 1891, fifteen were shown at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris.
H.O.Havemeyer Collection,
Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
29.100.109
From the placard:. Metropolitan Museum of Art
Haystacks_TheMET
Claude Monet French, 1840 – 1926
Haystacks (Effect of Snow and Sun), 1891
Ol on canvas
Signed and dated (lower left): Claude Monet 91
Between summer 1890 and winter 1891 Monet executed about thirty paintings of the haystacks in a field near his house at Giverny. In the midst of this effort, he wrote to the critic Gustave Geoffroy: “I am working very hard, struggling with a series of different effects (haystacks), but at this season the sun sets so fast I cannot follow it…The more I continue, the more I see that a great deal of work is necessary in order to succeed in rendering what I seek.” Although Monet had painted multiple versions of a single subject earlier, Haystacks was the first group that he exhibited as a series; in 1891, fifteen were shown at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris.
H.O.Havemeyer Collection,
Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
29.100.109
From the placard:. Metropolitan Museum of Art