Interior, after Dinner
Claude Monet
1868/1869
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 50.2 x 65.4 cm (19 3/4 x 25 3/4 in.) framed: 76.4 x 93.4 x 7.6 cm (30 1/16 x 36 3/4 x 3 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1983.1.26
About the Artist
Claude Monet · 1840–1926
Claude Monet, born Oscar-Claude Monet on November 14, 1840, in Paris and raised in Le Havre, Normandy, began his artistic journey as a successful teenage caricaturist. His formal training started at the Le Havre secondary school of the arts in 1851, where he received his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard. Around 1858, he met Eugène Boudin, who became his pivotal mentor, introducin...