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Claude Monet: Water Lilies (detail), 1914-17
Photograph by Sharon Mollerus, Creative Commons licensed
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!.
| - Claude Monet, flinging away a pair of glasses for which
he had been fitted to correct a severe astigmatism. |
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
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Detailed information about the artist and his works
Claude Monet at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
6 works by Claude Monet
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
14 paintings
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
4 works online by Monet
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) NEW! 
Many works on paper online
Claude Monet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Many works, including: Île aux Fleurs near Vétheuil, 1880
Ice Floes, 1893
The Green Wave, 1865
The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog), 1903
Claude Monet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Path through the Irises, 1914-17
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Commentary on 11 paintings by Claude Monet
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
Many works by Claude Monet online
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
9 paintings online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pastel collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
2 works by Claude Monet online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Article on the conservation and restoration of Monet's Water Lilies triptych
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
3 works online
Claude Monet at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
26 works by Claude Monet
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2 works by Monet
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Many works from this exhibition exploring the influence of Japanese art on Monet
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
A Stormy Sea
Jean-Pierre Hoschedé and Michel Monet on the Banks of the Epte
Waterloo Bridge: the Sun in a Fog
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Boulevard des Capucines, 1873-74 (Zoom)
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Water Lilies, ca.1916-26 (Zoom)
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
The Cliff, Etretat, Sunset, 1883
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
The Seine at Giverny, Morning Mists, 1897
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)
A total of nine paintings displayed over 2 pages of search results
Claude Monet at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
La Corniche near Monaco, 1884
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
2 works by Claude Monet online
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
The Luncheon (Le Déjeuner)
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Camille on the Beach at Trouville
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Tow-Path at Argenteuil, Winter, ca.1875
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Garden of the Princess, Louvre (Le Jardin de l'Infante)
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Wisteria (Glycines)
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Port-Goulphar, Belle-Île
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto NEW!
Charing Cross Bridge, Fog
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto NEW!
Vétheuil in Summer
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
Charing Cross Bridge, brouillard
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Antibes: Morning, 1888
Flowers in a Vase, 1888
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK
The Church at Varengeville
Beyeler Foundation Collection, Switzerland
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Several works from the exhibition Monet's London
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Japan NEW!
Water-Lily Pond, ca.1915-26
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Rocks At Belle-Ile, Port-Dormois
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
3 works online
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Rouen Cathedral, The Façade in Sunlight, 1894
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts - Provenance Research Project
Tulip Fields at Sassenheim, Near Leiden, 1886
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
L'Ile Aux Orties Giverny
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Weeping Willow, 1918
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Willows of Vetheuil
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
5 works by or related to the artist
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
The Seine at Bougival, 1869
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
4 works online
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Waterloo Bridge
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Waterlilies
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Waterlilies, 1903
Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Tennessee
Rue De Village, 1869-71
Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
Waterloo Bridge
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
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E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German)
Fondation Bemberg Museum, Toulouse, France
Bateaux sur la plage à Etretat
Portrait de Jean Monet
Fondazione Magnani-Rocca, Parma, Italy
Falaises à Pourville, soleil levant, 1897
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
La Berge à Lavacourt
Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Bords de la Seine a Lavacourt, 1879
Frick Collection, New York City
Vétheuil in Winter, 1879-80
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (in Italian)
Ninfee Rosa, 1897-99
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
Fishing nets at Pourville, 1882
Glasgow Museums, Scotland
Vétheuil
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales NEW!
Bateaux en Hollande pres de Zaandam
Harn Museum at the University of Florida, Gainesville
Champ d'Avoine, 1890
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
The Port of Argenteuil, 1874
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
2 works online; You must type "monet" into the top left search box and click the "GO" button
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan (in Japanese)
Water Lilies, 1907
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
La Pointe de la Hève at Low Tide
Weeping Willow
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany (in German)
Parliament Buildings in London, 1904
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "M"
Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland (mostly in German)
Palazzo Contarini, Venice, 1908
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (in German)
Varengeville, marée basse, 1882
Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France (in French)
Un bras de Seine près de Vétheuil, 1878
Claude Monet in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
Waterloo Bridge, 1903
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
The Rocks at Pourville, Low Tide
Towing a Boat, Honfleur
Waterloo Bridge, Veiled Sun
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France (in French)
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (in French)
Various paintings of Nymphéas
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (in French)
Argenteuil, 1875
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
Mer agitée à Etretat
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French) NEW!
3 paintings online
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French) NEW!
Nature morte au faisan
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French) NEW!
Vue générale de Rouen
Musées de Lorraine, France (in French)
Coucher de soleil à Etretat
Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna, Italy
Falaise à Pourville, soleil couchant (Scroll down to the bottom of the page)
Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna, Italy
Nymphéas (Scroll down to the bottom of the page)
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
La maison du pêcheur, Varengeville, 1882
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
Parliament, Effect of Fog, 1904
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
5 works by Monet
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum of Art of Romania NEW!
Camille, the Green Dress
National Museum of Art of Romania NEW!
Boats at Honfleur
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Break-up of the ice on the Seine
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
The Sunken Road in the Cliff at Varangeville
New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
3 paintings online
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Gardens of the Villa Moreno, Bordighera, 1884
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
The Break up of the Ice, 1881
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
La casa fra le rose, 1925
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Port de Monaco (Aurore), 1884
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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22 works by Claude Monet online
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Garden at Sainte-Adresse, 1867
Waves Breaking, 1881
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona NEW!
Les Areaux Fleuris, Giverny (Flowering Arches, Giverny), 1913
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
La Seine at Vetheuil, ca.1880
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Click thumbnail #7 for Monte Carlo Seen from Roquebrune
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Boulevard De Capucines, Paris, 1873
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art NEW!
The Basin at Argenteuil (see bottom row)
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch) NEW!
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Etretat, falaise et porte d'Arval. Soleil couchant, 1885
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
4 works online
San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Villas a Bordighera
Seattle Art Museum
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Claude Monet at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Three photographs of Monet's studio and garden
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Winter on the Seine, Vethenil
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Fields in the Spring
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
The House amid Roses, 1925-26
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2004-2005 exhibition
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Albertina, Vienna NEW!
The water lily pond, 1917-1919
The Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania
House Boat, 1876
The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark NEW!
The Chailly Road Through the Forest of Fontainebleau, 1865
The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark NEW!
Waterloo Bridge, Overcast, 1903
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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5 paintings online
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
4 paintings online
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Nympheas, Water Lilies
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Seerosen (Nymphéas), 1915/17
Yamagata Museum of Art, Japan
Charing Cross Bridge, la Tamise, 1903
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Danish Museums Online (in Danish)
(You can switch to English by going to the very top of the site, but the viewable works are much fewer)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
77 paintings - click on "Groupe suivant" to see page 2 of search results
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE) NEW!
Page forward for several paintings by Claude Monet
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 327
Columbia University Visual Media Center
Flash presentation about Monet's Rouen Cathedral series
FBI Art Theft Program
Beach at Pourville, stolen from the Museum Naradowe w Poznaniu, Poland
FBI Art Theft Program
Le Mont Kolsas, Effet de Soleil
FBI Art Theft Program
Marine, 1880-90, stolen from the Museu Chacara do Céu, Rio de Janeiro
Kilidavid
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Repository of Abstract Art
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Sailing off the Point, 1882
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Virtual exhibit: "Monet in the 20th Century"
The Modernist Journals Project
Theobald Jennings Fine Art Dealers, London, UK -- Notable past sales
Nympheas, 1904
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Claude Monet 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Apollo Magazine
Article about two paintings by Monet, both entitled Boulevard des Capucines
Art + Auction Magazine
The photo gallery contains 2 works on paper by Claude Monet
Artnet Magazine
Le Seine prés de Bougival, 1872
Fred Camper
An Ecological Vision: Monet in the 90s, originally published in the Chicago Reader
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"A New Image of Monet: Melding Light and Rhythm," article by Souren Melikian
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"Monet's Long, Luminous Journey to the Edge of Abstraction," article by Souren Melikian
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Slate Magazine
"Still Waters: Claude Monet's late works run surprisingly deep," article by Christopher Benfey
Time Magazine
"The Old Man and the Pond: A superb Monet show", 1978 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Letting Nature Reign Resplendent", 1990 article by Robert Hughes
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