"La Grenouillére" by Claude Monet

La Grenouillére 1869, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; a small plein-air painting created with broad strokes of intense color

      Oscar Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. 

 

"Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every 
tone of blue and pink: it's enchanting, 
it's delicious." Claude Monet