Weeping Willow (Q2450237)

Label from: English (en)

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genre: landscape art (Q191163)
artist: Claude Monet (Q296)
collection: Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
location: Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
depicts: Salix babylonica (Q156307)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID: DgFwKpeOBWqGHA

catalog URL: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection-object/weeping-willow

information from the Kimbell Art Museum catalog

description: Monet had painted ten Weeping Willow paintings by 1919, apparently in mournful response to the mass tragedy of World War I. Due to the war, Monet’s luxurious compound at Giverny was for the most part emptied of his children’s families and his household staff, who were either called into service or moved away from the advancing German army. His only surviving son was in constant danger at the front. At times Monet could hear artillery fire, but he refused to leave, preferring to share the fate of his gardens.

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