Fields of Bezons
by MONET, Claude, Oil on canvas, 57 x 80 cm
To the west of Argenteuil, near Paris, where Monet lived between 1872 and 1878, he painted the Fields of Bezons c. 1873. This unusually light-hearted canvas of a woman with a parasol seated in the grass first appeared in the major Impressionist exhibition of 1876 at Durand-Ruel1s gallery and was also included in the Monet-Rodin exhibition of 1889.