Poppy Field (Giverny)
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
1890–91
On view — Gallery 240 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
In July 1890, Claude Monet began four almost identically scaled canvases showing poppy fields near his home in Giverny. Although he did not consider these to be a series, like the 25 paintings of stacks of wheat that he began shortly after the harvest that same summer, the works certainly show his…
Description courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 61.2 × 93.4 cm (24 1/16 × 36 3/4 in.); Framed: 77.5 × 109.3 × 7 cm (30 1/2 × 43 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Origin
- France