Landscape on the Ile Saint-Martin

Claude Monet

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Landscape on the Ile Saint-Martin
Claude Monet
Date: 1881
Style: Impressionism
Genre: landscape
Paul G. Allen Family Collection


“My studio! I have never had a studio, and can’t understand how one can shut oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no.”  He subsequently responded: “This is ‘my studio!’” with a sweeping gesture toward the Seine, the hills and Vetheuil.[1]  All of this occurred several months before Monet painted En Paysage dans I’ile Saint-Martin, one of the last works he created in Vetheuil, a small village 40 miles west of Paris where he lived with his wife and two children, and the family of Ernest Hoschedé, a patron of Monet’s.