Detail of Ile aux Orties near Vernon by Monet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2010

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

Title: Île aux Orties near Vernon

Date: 1897

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28 7/8 x 36 1/2 in. (73.3 x 92.7 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, 1960

Accession Number: 60.154


Gallery Label:

Once an island, the Île aux Orties is now joined to the riverbank close to the site where the Epte flows into the Seine near Giverny. Monet owned the property and used the site to moor his three boats.

There are four versions of this painting; all are signed and dated 1897.

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