The Willows
Claude Monet · 1880 · oil on canvas
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About this picture
The Willows is a public-domain painting by Claude Monet, dated 1880. Oil on canvas. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“The Willows” (1880) 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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