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Claude Monet à Vétheuil (II):　1. La Seine à Vétheuil ; 2. Matin sur la Seine, près de Vétheuil ; 3. Bras de la Seine, près de Vétheuil ; 4. La Seine à Vétheuil (bis) ; 5. La Seine près de Vétheuil, par temps orageux.

Vétheuil

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

Date: 1901

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840 - 1926)

Date: 1881

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

Description

Monet planted gardens wherever he lived. When he rented this house at Vétheuil, he made arrangements with the owner to landscape the terraces, which lead down to the Seine. The boy with the wagon is Monet's young son, and on the steps behind him are other members of his extended household.

On the path, the brilliant sunlight is dappled with shade that falls in blues, plums, and various greens. Figures and faces are defined —briefly— with color. The large flowerpots were Monet's, and he took them with him each time he moved, using them in other gardens. They are "blue and white" only in our understanding: examined up close they are blue and green where they reflect the grass behind them, elsewhere tinged with gold or pink.