荷兰个性化邮票上的 克洛德·莫奈 (法語：Claude Monet) 名畫

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Molens in het Westzijderveld bij Zaandam, 1871 (收藏於梵谷博物館)
Claude Monet paid three visits to the Netherlands. During the first of these visits he spent four months in Zaandam with his wife and child. The painter thought it ‘all very amusing. Houses in every colour, mills by the hundred and delightful boats, exceptionally friendly Hollanders who almost all speak French.’ He wrote to his friend Camille Pissarro that there was enought to paint for an entire lifetime. Or at any rate for an entire summer, as no less than 24 canvases survive from his time in Zaandam. (http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=4841&lang=en)

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The Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam (Looking up the Groenburgwal) c. 1874
In 1871 and 1874, the famous French impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) visited Amsterdam. He was impressed by the clouds and the grey light, but was not happy with his paintings, which -as this page shows- did not "catch" the Amsterdam light. Monet never exposed these works, which are still not very well-known; not even their names are recorded.        
One of the paintings Monet made, now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and included in the Wilderstein Catalog as #399. The clouds and the blue sky are more reminiscent of southern France than of Holland. Note that the trees on the painting have lost their leaves, so it was made in the autumn, when the Amsterdam sky is usually hazy. Monet created something that was too sunny.  This painting was bought by the family of the American painter Mary Cassatt (1845-1926); Monet made a second copy, bought by a Rumanian collector named Belliot. The church, by the way, is the Zuiderkerk (southern church). (http://www.livius.org/dutchhistory/amsterdam/amsterdam_monet.html)

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《荷兰的郁金香田》 1886年，收藏於 巴黎奥赛博物馆（法文：Musée d'Orsay）
法語：Champs de tulipes en Hollande

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1866年，莫奈以卡米耶·东西厄（Camille Doncieux）为模特兒创作了《绿衣女人》（The Woman in the Green Dress）。不久之后，东西厄即怀孕并生下了他们的第一个孩子让（Jean）。1870年，莫奈与东西厄结婚。1873年，他们搬进了塞纳河（Seine River）边阿让特伊（Argenteuil）的一幢房子。(http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/克洛德·莫奈)
《阿让特伊的莫奈房子》 1873年，收藏於 美国 芝加哥艺术学院 (Art Institute of Chicago)
法語：Maison de l'Artiste a Argenteuil

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《遮阳伞的女士-莫奈夫人和她的儿子》 1875年，收藏於 美国 华盛顿 哥伦比亚特区 國家藝廊（National Gallery of Art）法語：La Femme a l'ombrelle

With Manet's assistance, Monet found lodging in suburban Argenteuil in late 1871, a move that initiated one of the most fertile phases of his career. Impressionism evolved in the late 1860s from a desire to create full–scale, multi–figure depictions of ordinary people in casual outdoor situations. At its purest, impressionism was attuned to landscape painting, a subject Monet favored. In Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son, his skill as a figure painter is equally evident. Contrary to the artificial conventions of academic portraiture, Monet delineated the features of his sitters as freely as their surroundings. The spontaneity and naturalness of the resulting image were praised when it appeared in the second impressionist exhibition in 1876.

Woman with a Parasol was painted outdoors, probably in a single session of several hours' duration. The artist intended the work to convey the feeling of a casual family outing rather than a formal portrait, and used pose and placement to suggest that his wife and son interrupted their stroll while he captured their likenesses. The brevity of the moment portrayed here is conveyed by a repertory of animated brushstrokes of vibrant color, hallmarks of the style Monet was instrumental in forming. Bright sunlight shines from behind Camille to whiten the top of her parasol and the flowing cloth at her back, while colored reflections from the wildflowers below touch her front with yellow. (http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=61379)

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愛德華·马奈（法文：Édouard Manet，1832年1月23日－1883年4月30日），出生在法国巴黎的寫實派與印象派画家。(http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/愛德華·馬奈)

In the summer of 1874, Manet stayed at his family's house in Gennevilliers, just across the Seine from Monet in Argenteuil. The Monet family was living in a house that Manet had helped them find the year before. The two painters saw each other often that summer and Manet attempted twice to paint Monet and his wife Camille as Monet worked aboard his floating studio. (http://www.monetpainting.net/monet_by_others.php)

《莫奈的水上画室》 1874年，收藏於 德国 慕尼黑 新绘画陈列馆（Neue Pinakothek）法語：Monet dans son bateau atelier