Detail of Chrysanthemums by Monet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018

Title: Chrysanthemums

Artist: Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny)

Date: 1882

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 39 1/2 x 32 1/4 in. (100.3 x 81.9 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929

Accession Number: 29.100.106


An avid gardener, Monet produced some twenty floral still lifes between 1878 and 1883, garnering both critical and commercial success. This painting was exhibited together with the Museum’s Bouquet of Sunflowers (29.100.107) at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris in 1883 and again with the avant-garde artists’ circle Les XX in Brussels in 1886.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437115