Monet in front of his house and garden in Giverny, 1918 Stereoscopic autochrome.“These photos
Monet in front of his house and garden in Giverny, 1918 Stereoscopic autochrome.“These photos of Monet’s gardens at his home in Giverny are often uncredited, but were all taken by his friend Étienne Clémentel. Giverny lies about fifty miles north-west of Paris on the right bank of the Seine. Monet first spotted his eventual home while riding on a train; at first the artist could only rent the house but,even after buying it outright (in 1890) it still took him more than ten years to see the Town Council grant him permission to divert water from the nearby Epte River to create his lily pond. Étienne Clémentel, (1864-1936) was a French government official with a portfolio in economics and also a close friend of Prime minister Georges Clemenceau. It was Clemenceau who took the lead (in 1914) encouraging Monet to paint several large Water Lily panels to be donated to the State and, when Clemenceau visited Giverny in 1918 (to choose the panels that were to be installed in the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris) Clémentel accompanied him and took the pictures you see here. All images are from the collection of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.”Via : Pictorialism : photography as art / facebook -- source link
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