Claude Monet - Corner of the Apartment Button

A Corner of the Apartment (Un coin d'appartement), 1875 - Claude Monet, oil on canvas. Claude Monet (Paris, 1840 - Giverny, 1926) was a French Impressionist painter. This Argenteuil scene shows a domestic interior in Monet's home. His son Jean stands in silhouette in the room while Camille sits at the left, among green plants, patterned curtains and decorative vases. Instead of arranging a formal family portrait, Monet used the apartment to study filtered light and depth inside a modern home, with daylight entering from a window at the back. Gustave Caillebotte later owned the painting, and Monet exhibited it at the third Impressionist exhibition in 1877. The picture shows him applying the spontaneity of plein-air painting to an intimate indoor subject.