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Let your eye move between the scattered red poppies and the tall, narrow tree rising through the center of the sky.
This canvas belongs to a group of four field views Monet began in July 1890. Although he did not regard them as a series, the related pictures show him developing several canvases together shortly before beginning his wheat-stack group.
Oil on canvas · 61.2 × 93.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Poppy Field (Giverny)
- Artist
- Claude Monet
- Date
- 1890–91
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 61.2 × 93.4 cm (24 1/16 × 36 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.