↗France, late 19th century-early 20th century · c. 1915–26
Water Lilies (Agapanthus)
Claude Monet
Colour palette
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Approximate colour proportions
Estimated from six colour groups in the museum image, including visible paper or borders. Reproduction and lighting affect the result; these are image-area proportions, not pigment measurements.
Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Image licence: CC0 · Web image resized for display. · Museum record & image source ↗
France · 1887
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 16 x 12 1/2 in. (40.6 x 31.8 cm)
- Country / context
- France
- Movement / tradition
- Post-Impressionism · Source ↗
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Pathway
- European and American art ↗
ABOUT THIS WORK
Directional marks move through the face, hat and background. Compare warm flesh and straw tones with cooler surrounding marks. The museum identifies a second painting, The Potato Peeler, on the reverse of the canvas.
Original educational overview · based on the linked museum recordA MOMENT TO LOOK
Start with what you can see: shapes, surface, colour and scale. How might the listed materials affect the way this object was made and experienced?
Looking prompt · an invitation to observe, not a historical interpretation.
