Gardener's House at Antibes (1888): Art, History and Details

Gardener's House at Antibes (1888) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

In 1888, Claude Monet spent four months in Antibes, a city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean coast, to derive inspiration for painting. Although his visit was occasionally challenged by strong winds that threatened to knock over his easel, the artist was able to complete nearly 40 works. This especially vibrant canvas is a depiction of a gardener’s house set against the sea and the distant Alps. Monet portrays intense midday light through thickly applied paint in bright colors that evoke the region’s sun-drenched climate. Small daubs of green on the slender trees framing the house suggest the onset of spring.

Object facts

• Title: Gardener's House at Antibes
• Date: 1888
• Creator attribution: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Framed: 91.1 x 118.4 x 13.7 cm (35 7/8 x 46 5/8 x 5 3/8 in.); Unframed: 66.3 x 93 cm (26 1/8 x 36 5/8 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1916.1044

A detail from the museum

Monet painted 35 canvases during his visit to Antibes from January to May 1888.

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade

Further reading listed by the museum

• Warner, Langdon. “The Wade Collection.” The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art IV, no. 1 (January, 1917): 3-8.
• "Recent Changes in the Painting Galleries." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 2/3 (1918): 22-27.

View the collection record

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