Spring Flowers
1864
Claude Monet
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Spring Flowers, 1864. Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). Oil on fabric; framed: 144.5 x 117.2 x 12.1 cm (56 7/8 x 46 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.); unframed: 116.8 x 90.5 cm (46 x 35 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1953.155 Monet is quoted as saying, "I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." He painted this work in 1864, the first productive year of his career.
- Maker/Artist
- Monet, Claude
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 144.5 x 117.2 x 12.1 cm (56 7/8 x 46 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 116.8 x 90.5 cm (46 x 35 5/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed upper right corner: Monet 64
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1953.155
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Hanna Fund
- Exhibitions
- Two Sides of the Medal: French Painting from Gérôme to Gauguin, Horticulture Motifs in Art, Claude Monet: a loan exhibition, In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., A World of Flowers, A World of Flowers, Paintings by Monet, L'Art en France Sours Le Second Empire (Art in France Under the Second Empire), Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960, Les Origines de l'Impressionnisme, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Still Life Painting, Monet's Garden, Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism, At the Source of Monet's Water Lilies: The Impressionists Décor, <em>La vingtième exposition municipale des beaux-arts.</em> Probably Musée de Rouen, Rouen, France (1864).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 222 Impressionism & Post-Impressionism
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