Detail of Poppy Fields Near Argenteuil by Monet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2010

Poppy Field, Argenteuil, 1875
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
Oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 29 in. (54 x 73.7 cm)
Signed (lower right): Claude Monet
The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 2001, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002 (2001.202.5)

This work is one of four similar views of the plain of Gennevilliers, just southeast of Argenteuil, which Monet executed in the summer of 1875. He first painted the subject two years earlier in the celebrated Poppies at Argenteuil (Musée d'Orsay, Paris).


Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2001.202.5