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Jean Monet on his Hobby Horse by Monet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018

Jean Monet on his Hobby Horse by Monet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018
Title: Jean Monet (1867–1914) on His Hobby Horse

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

Date: 1872

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 23 7/8 x 29 1/4 in. (60.6 x 74.3 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Gift of Sara Lee Corporation, 2000

Accession Number: 2000.195

Monet painted this picture of his elder son, Jean, in the summer of 1872, not long after the artist and his family returned to France from self-imposed exile during the Franco-Prussian War. Thanks to the efforts of the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, the painter’s finances had begun to improve, enabling the once-impoverished Monets to rent a house in Argenteuil, an agreeable suburb northwest of Paris. For this portrait, Monet posed the five-year-old Jean in the garden of their new home. Monet never exhibited the painting but kept it throughout his life.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438435

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