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Claude Monet t I, 7^ Claude Monet THE FIRST OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS Brian Petrie Phaidon Oxford • Phaidon Press Limited, Littlegate House, St Ebbe's Street, Oxford First published 1979 Published in the United States ofAmerica by E. P. Dutton, New York © 1979 Phaidon Press Limited All rights reserved ISBN 7148 1968 9 Library ofCongress Catalog Card Number: 78-73432 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or other- wise,withoutthepriorpermissionofthecopyrightowner Printed in Great Britain by Waterlow (Dunstable) Ltd 1 (frontispiece). Photograph ofMonetinthe large studio specially created for working on the Water-Lilies. About 1920. Collection Durand-Ruel. .. List of Plates 1 (frontispiece). Monet in his studio 36. Boulevarddes Capucines (detail of35) 2. TheLuncheon 37. Studio Boat 3. Bordighera 38. Spring, the River seen through the Branches 4. Caricature ofChampfleury 39. Impression, Sunrise 5. The Pianist 40. The Seine at Lavacourt 6. The Beach at Trouville 41. The Frost 7. Women in the Garden 42. Banks ofthe Seine, Vetheuil 8. The Mouth ofthe Seine at Honfleur 43. Snow at Argenteuil 9. Pointe de la Heve, at Low Tide 44. Train in the Snow 10. Portrait ofJ. F. Jacquemart 45. Boating on the Epte 11 Man with a Pipe 46. The Boat 12. Studies ofChildren 47. Gare Saint-Lazare 13. The Roadat Chailly 48. LePont de VEurope, Gare Saint-Lazare 14. Study for Dejeuner sur VHerbe 49. Cliffs at Etretat 15. Dejeuner sur VHerbe 50. The Cliff Walk, Etretat 16. Woman in the Green Dress (Camille) 51. The Manneporte, Etretat 17. Roadin the Forest with Wood-Gatherers 52. Le Cap Martin 18. LaJaponaise 53. Ventimiglia 19. Madame Gaudibert 54. M. Paul, the Pastry Cook atPourville 20. White Turkeys 21. The Promenade: Woman with a Parasol 55. Poly, Fisherman at Belle-Ile 56. Haystacks, Snow 22. Corner ofthe Pondat Montgeron 23. Detail of Corner ofthe Pondat Montgeron 57. Haystacks, Late Summer 58. Poplars on the Epte 24. Riverside at Bennecourt 25. Water-Lilies 59. Poplars, WindEffect 26. The Beach at Sainte-Adresse 60. Rouen Cathedral, Sunset 27. TheJetty at Le Havre 61. Waterloo Bridge, Cloudy Weather 28. La Grenouillere 62. Water-Lilies (Nympheas) 29. Meditation 63. The Water-Lily Pond 30. The PoolofLondon 64. Weeping Willow 31 Houses by the River Zaan 65. Stf/i Giorgio Maggiore, Twilight 32. Blue House at Zaandam 66. Trophies ofthe Chase 33. London, Houses ofParliament 67. /?etf" Mullets 34. Boulevarddes Capucines 68. /I Fiaje ofFlowers 35. Boulevarddes Capucines 69. Chrysanthemums Select Bibliography Theinterested readerandthe studentinsearchoffurther reading on Monet will turn naturally to John Rewald's monumental History of Impressionism (4th ed., New York, 1973),withitsextensivebibliography.Ishouldlike, however, to record my particular indebtedness to the following works, without which this essay could not have been written: Gustave Geffroy, Claude Monet, sa Vie, son Temps, son Oeuvre, Paris 1922 Jean-Pierre Hoschede, Claude Monet ce MaiConnu (two volumes), Geneva 1960 Joel Isaacson, Monet: Le Dejeuner sur VHerbe, London 1972 Steven Z. Levine, Monet andhis Critics, New York and London 1976 LionelloVenturi,LesArchivesdeVImpressionnisme,Paris 1939 Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et Catalogue Raisonne (Volume 1: Paintings 1840-1881), Lausanne and Paris 1974
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