Haystack near Giverny

Meule près de Giverny

Haystack near Giverny

Claude Monet · 1884

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

Moscow, Russia

About this painting

This early haystack painting was bought by Paul Durand-Ruel in 1906 and sold on to Moscow collector Ivan Morozov in 1907, arriving in Russia that October — a decade before Monet's famed 1890s Haystacks series.