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Gustave Caillebotte / White and Yellow Chrysanthemums, Petit Gennevilliers Garden

White and Yellow Chrysanthemums, Petit Gennevilliers Garden

1893 · Oil on canvas

Densely clustered white and yellow chrysanthemums fill the canvas, grown in Caillebotte's own garden at Petit Gennevilliers.

LocationParis, France
Genrestill life
Dimensions73 × 62 cm

Why it matters

White and yellow chrysanthemums grow in pots in Caillebotte's garden at Petit Gennevilliers. After his death, his brother gave it to Monet, who then painted the same subject, probably in homage.

Did you know?

  • It was painted in 1893.
  • Martial Caillebotte gave it to Monet in 1894.
  • It is in the Musée Marmottan Monet.

Based on the French Wikipedia article Chrysanthèmes blancs et jaunes, jardin du Petit Gennevilliers (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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