AUDIO HIGHLIGHTS

Claude Monet
Coast View with Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl
1673
Pen and brown ink with gray and gray-brown wash and white heightening on blue paper, 192 x 255 mm
Liber Veritatis 183
The British Museum, London

Claude Monet
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
1646
Oil on canvas, 32.8 x 38 cm
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Claude Monet
Pastoral Landscape with the Arch of Constantine
1648
Pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash on white paper, 195 x 258 mm
Liber Veritatis 115
The British Museum, London

Claude Monet
View of Sasso
c. 1649
Black chalk, pen and brown ink with brown and reddish-brown wash on white paper, 219 x 319 mm
The British Museum, London

Claude Monet
A Study of a Large Tree
1660-65
Black chalk with gray wash on white paper, 385 x 333 mm
The British Museum, London

Claude Monet
Three Figures on the Banks of a River (La Crescenza)
1662
Pen and brown ink with dark brown wash on white paper, 183 x 251 mm
The British Museum, London

Claude Monet
A Bank of Trees
c. 1645
Black chalk, pen and brown ink with brown, pink, and gray wash and white heightening on blue paper, 224 x 327 mm
The British Museum, London

Claude Monet
The Tiber from Monte Mario Looking Southeast
c. 1640-41
Dark brown wash on white paper, 185 x 268 mm
The British Museum, London

Claude Monet
Shepherd and Shepherdess Conversing in a Landscape
c. 1651
Etching on white paper, first state, retouched in pen and brown ink, 200 x 258 mm
The British Museum, London

Claude Monet
Landscape with the Adoration of the Golden Calf
1650-53
Pen and brown ink with gray wash on white paper, 200 x 269 mm
The British Museum, London

By Richard Rand

The book presents some of Claude's most remarkable drawings—including all aspects of his style and subject matter, from informal outdoor sketches of trees, rivers, and ruins to formal presentation drawings and elaborate compositional designs for paintings—many of which have never before been reproduced in color. A detailed and scholarly essay places them within the social and cultural contexts of their time and includes comparative illustrations of paintings and etchings to situate them within the artist's oeuvre.

228 pages, 9 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
137 color illustrations
Published by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in association with Yale University Press