Jean Monet on His Hobby Horse (Jean Monet sur son cheval de bois), c. 1872 by Claude Monet – Fresh Green Edition

Jean Monet on His Hobby Horse, painted by Claude Monet in 1872 shows the artist's five-year-old son Jean at play astride his wooden toy horse in the garden of the family's new home at Argenteuil, his small figure caught mid-motion with the quick, broken brushwork Monet was developing for his Impressionist landscapes. Painted the same summer the Monets resettled in France after fleeing the Franco-Prussian War, the canvas turns a domestic, private moment into as vivid a study of movement and dappled light as his views of the Seine.

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: c. 1872.

Jean Monet on His Hobby Horse (Jean Monet sur son cheval de bois), c. 1872 by Claude Monet. Impressionist Childhood Wall Art Canvas Print.

This edition is color-graded with the garden's natural greens and warm floral accents left vivid and bright, giving the scene an airy, sunlit character.

Also available as a second edition: View the deep, shadowed edition of Jean Monet on His Hobby Horse. Same painting, with deep, shadowed tones that plunge the garden into near-darkness.