Caricature of Jules Didier (“Butterfly Man”)
Claude Monet · c. 1858 · Black and white chalks on blue laid paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Caricature of Jules Didier (“Butterfly Man”) is a public-domain drawing by Claude Monet, dated c. 1858. Black and white chalks on blue laid paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Caricature of Jules Didier (“Butterfly Man”)” (c. 1858) belongs to Monet’s habit of staying with one motif — a bridge, a field, a station, the Thames, the lily pond — and painting it again as the light changed.
About the artist
Claude Monet (1840–1926) was a founder of Impressionism. He painted the same motif again and again — haystacks, the Rouen cathedral, the Thames, then the water lilies at Giverny — to catch how light changes.
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