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| Keywords: Parc Monceau Monet.jpg Artwork This is one of three views of the Parc Monceau in Paris that Monet painted in the spring of 1876 Situated on the boulevard de Courcelles and surrounded by fashionable town houses the park was planned in the late eighteenth century in the form of an English garden for Philippe d'Orléans For this picture which was shown in the 1877 Impressionist exhibition Monet positioned his easel so that the composition would be framed by the vegetation at the sides and the houses in the background He also painted two views of the park in 1878 both looking toward the buildings visible at the left in this painting; one of them is in the Museum's collection 59 142 1876 Oil on canvas 59 7 x 82 6 cm Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City object history exhibition history credit line Bequest of Loula D Lasker New York City 1961 Signed and dated lower right Claude Monet 76 accession number 59 206 110001554 PD-old-auto 1926 Gardens by Claude Monet Parc Monceau Paintings of Paris by Claude Monet Paintings of gardens in Paris Impressionist paintings of gardens Images of Paris from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Paintings by Claude Monet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1876 in Paris 1876 paintings in France | ||||
