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Claude Monet
John Singer Sargent American
Not on view
This sober study of Claude Monet (1840–1926) was probably painted at Monet’s home at Giverny, France, where Sargent traveled with their mutual friend, sculptor Auguste Rodin, in 1887. Sargent worked alongside the great Impressionist artist at Giverny on more than one occasion and looked to him for advice on color in his landscape paintings.
In 1897, Sargent presented this portrait to the National Academy of Design in New York as his diploma work. It reflects his veneration of the older artist and ensures that their connection would be publicly immortalized.
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