Summer (L’Été), c. 1874 by Claude Monet

Summer (L’Été), painted by Claude Monet in 1874 stretches across a sunlit meadow where a woman rests in the cool shade of slender birches, her parasol laid in the tall grass beside her. Beyond the shadowed foreground the field opens into shimmering summer light, dotted with distant figures and wind-stirred trees under a soft, hazy sky. Painted around Argenteuil at the height of Monet’s early Impressionist years, the picture distills the warmth and ease of a summer afternoon in the French countryside.

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: 1874.

Summer (L’Été), c. 1874 by Claude Monet. Impressionist Summer Meadow Wall Art Canvas Print.