Stack of Wheat (Snow Effect, Overcast Day)
Claude Monet
1890–91
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
66 × 93 cm (26 × 36 5/8 in.); Framed: 87.4 × 114.7 × 11.5 cm (34 3/8 × 45 1/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
Classification
oil on canvas
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
16560
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...