MONET, Claude
(b. 1840, Paris, d. 1926, Giverny)

Turkeys

1876
Oil on canvas, 175 x 173 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

In the autumn of 1876, Hoschedé and his wife Alice (Monet's future second wife) invited to Montgeron, where Monet received a studio in the park. His host commissioned Monet to paint four paintings to decorate the interior of the castle. One of these paintings was the Turkeys.




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