Keywords: Claude Monet, The Parc Monceau, 1878.jpg Artwork Creator Claude Monet en Gallery Label Monet painted six views of the Parc Monceau three in 1876 and three in 1878 In this canvas the disposition of light and shade in the foreground the patterns of the leaves and the broad contours beginning to develop in areas of strong contrast suggest that Monet had already begun to experiment with the boldly two-dimensional motifs that would characterize his work of the 1880s and 1890s 1878 Oil on canvas Size cm 54 3 72 7 Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art accession number 59 142 object history credit line The Mr and Mrs Henry Ittleson Jr Purchase Fund 1959 Signed and dated lower right Claude Monet 78ยท 437108 437108 PD-old-auto 1926 Paintings by Claude Monet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1878 paintings in France Monet 1870s paintings by Claude Monet 1878 Parc Monceau Paintings of gardens in Paris Impressionist paintings of gardens 1878 in Paris Images of Paris from the Metropolitan Museum of Art |