Boy in the Country
Claude Monet · 1857 · Graphite on ivory wove paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Boy in the Country is a public-domain drawing by Claude Monet, dated 1857. Graphite on ivory wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Boy in the Country” (1857) 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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