Woman in the Garden

1866/7 painting by Claude Monet

Not to be confused with Women in the Garden.

Woman in the Garden

Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre in the Garden
Artist| Claude Monet
Year| 1867
Medium| oil paint, canvas
Movement| Impressionism
Dimensions| 82 cm (32 in) × 101 cm (40 in)
Location| Hermitage Museum, Russia
Accession No.| ГЭ-6505

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Woman in the Garden (French: Femme au jardin) (or Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre in the Garden) is a painting begun in 1866 by Claude Monet when he was a young man of 26. The work was executed en plein air in oil on canvas with a relatively large size of 82 by 101 cm. and currently belongs in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia.[1]

The woman in the painting is Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre, the young wife of his well-to-do cousin Paul-Eugene Lecadre. The Lecadres lived at Le Havre and had a country house, Le Coteau, in nearby Sainte-Adresse, in the garden of which the painting was made during a short visit.[2] X-ray analysis has revealed that it was actually painted over a previous picture.[3]

The style of the painting is quite composed and detailed, unlike the typically impressionist works for which Monet was later acclaimed. Three principal objects, Jeanne-Marguerite, the central flowering rose bush in the bed of bright red flowers and the flowering bush on the right provide an ordered structure and Jeanne-Marguerite's bright white dress contrasts vividly with the reds, pinks and greens of the garden plants and trees. The subject matter foreshadowed Monet's lifelong passion for painting flowers and gardens in a natural setting.

## See also

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* List of paintings by Claude Monet
* 100 Great Paintings, 1980 BBC series

## References

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1. ^ "Woman in the Garden. Sainte-Adresse". Hermitage Museum. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
2. ^ "Monet Across Three Decades: From Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre in the Garden to Meadows at Giverny". Culturedarm. 31 January 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
3. ^ Brodskaya, Nathalia. Claude Monet. p. 54.

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List of paintings

Paintings|

* View from Rouelles (1858)
* Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Paris / Moscow) (1865–1867)
* A Cart on the Snowy Road at Honfleur (1865)
* Camille (1866)
* Women in the Garden (1866)
* Woman in the Garden (1866)
* Regatta at Sainte-Adresse (1867)
* The Beach at Sainte-Adresse (1867)
* Garden at Sainte-Adresse (1867)
* The Road in Front of Saint-Simeon Farm in Winter (1867)
* On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt (1868)
* L'Enfant a la tasse (1868)
* The Magpie (1868)
* Interior, after Dinner (1868–69)
* The Red Cape (1868–73)
* La Grenouillère (1869)
* Houses on the Achterzaan (1871)
* Windmill at Zaandam (1871)
* Impression, Sunrise (1872)
* Regatta at Argenteuil (c. 1872)
* Springtime (1872)
* The Seine at Rouen (1872)
* Boulevard des Capucines (1873)
* Lilac Bush in the Sun (1873)
* The Seine at Asnières (1873)
* Resting Under a Lilac Bush (1873)
* The Seine at Argenteuil (1873)
* The Poppy Field near Argenteuil (1873)
* Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat (1874)
* The Grand Quai at Le Havre (1874)
* Snow at Argenteuil (1875)
* The Train in the Snow (1875)
* Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son (1875)
* A Corner in the Garden at Montgeron (1876)
* The Studio Boat (Le Bateau-atelier) (1876)
* La Japonaise (1876)
* Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare (1877)
* Waves Breaking (1881)
* Beach in Pourville (1882)
* Portrait of Père Paul (1882)
* The Cliff Walk at Pourville (1882)
* Anglers on the Seine at Poissy (1882)
* Stormy Sea at Étretat (1883)
* The Valley of the Nervia (1884)
* Garden at Bordighera, Morning (1884)
* Haystack Near Giverny (1884)
* The Pyramides at Port-Coton, Rough Sea (1886)
* Study of Rocks; Creuse (1889)
* The Valley of the Creuse, Sunset (1889)
* Boating on the River Epte (1890)
* Champ d'avoine aux coquelicots (1890)
* Le Jardin de l'artiste à Giverny (1900)
* San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk (1908)
* The Doge's Palace Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore (1908)
* Le Grand Canal (1908)
* Nymphéas en fleur (c. 1914–1917)
* Weeping Willow (1918)
* Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas (1919)
* Water Lilies (1919)

Series|

* Gare Saint-Lazare (1877)
* Cliffs at Étretat (1885–1886 - Massachusetts / Moscow)
* Haystacks (1890–91)
* Poplars (1891)
* Rouen Cathedral (1892–1894)
* Mount Kolsaas (1895)
* Charing Cross Bridge (1899–1904)
* Waterloo Bridge (1900–1904)
* Houses of Parliament (1900–1905)
* Le Grand Canal (1908)
* Le Palais Ducal (1908)
* San Giorgio Maggiore (1908–1912)
* Water Lilies (1897–1926)

People|

* Camille Doncieux (first wife)
* Alice Hoschedé (second wife)
* Jean Monet (son)
* Michel Monet (son)
* Suzanne Hoschedé (step-daughter)
* Blanche Hoschedé Monet (step-daughter and daughter-in-law)
* Theodore Earl Butler (son-in-law, married Monet's step-daughters, Suzanne and Marthe)
* Jacques-François Ochard (teacher)
* Eugène Boudin (teacher)
* Ernest Hoschedé (patron)
* Paul Durand-Ruel (dealer)

Museums|

* Fondation Monet – Giverny home, studio, and gardens
* Musée de l'Orangerie
* Musée Marmottan Monet

Portrayals|

* The Improvised Field Hospital (1865 painting)
* A Studio at Les Batignolles (1870 painting)
* Claude Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil (1873)
* Claude Monet Painting in his Studio (1874 painting)
* Portrait of the Painter Claude Monet (1875 painting)
* Monet: The Mystery of the Orangery (2000 video game)
* The Impressionists (2006 series)

Related|

* Pays des Impressionnistes
* Monet (crater)

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