Claude Monet Paintings

Palazzo da Mula, Venice

"Palazzo da Mula, Venice" was painted by Claude Monet in Oil on canvas during the Impressionism epoch in 1908. Original painting size was 31.9" x 24.4" (81.0cm x 62.0cm). The style of the painting is Impressionist and the theme represented is Landscape, Architecture. The painting is currently displayed at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.




Claude Monet was Born on November 14th in Paris, France. French painter who was the initiator, leader, and unswerving advocate of the Impressionist style.

Monet's first success as an artist came when he was 15, with the sale of caricatures that were carefully observed and well drawn. In these early years he also executed pencil sketches of sailing ships, which were almost technical in their clear descriptiveness.



The concept of embracing spatiality, new to the history of painting and only implicit in the first water-lily paintings, unfolded during the years until the artist's death into a cycle of huge murals to be installed in Paris in two 80-foot oval rooms in the Orangerie of the Tuileries.


Water Lilies Pond

In 1893, in the garden at his home in Giverny, Monet created the water-lily pond that inspired his most famous works, the lyrical Nymphéas (water-lilies) paintings. Wildly popular retrospective exhibitions of his work toured the world during the last decades of the 20th century and established his unparalleled public appeal, sustaining his reputation as one of the most significant and popular figures in the modern Western painting tradition

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