The Meadow Lined with Trees (Le Pré bordé d’arbres) by Claude Monet

The Meadow Lined with Trees (Le Pré bordé d’arbres), painted by Claude Monet is an intimate study in pastel and gouache of an open field closed off by a dark screen of slender trees, now preserved at the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris. A sweep of green meadow runs toward low rooftops half hidden in the shadowed treeline, while a windswept blue sky streaked with silvery clouds fills the upper half of the sheet. Works like this reveal how Monet sketched directly from the French countryside, distilling light and weather into a few rapid strokes well before his grand series paintings.

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

The Meadow Lined with Trees (Le Pré bordé d’arbres) by Claude Monet. French Countryside Wall Art Canvas Print.