Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning (Meules, Effet de Neige, Le Matin)

Claude Monet

1891

Oil on canvas, Oil, Canvas

J. Paul Getty Museum

Two haystacks covered in snow sit in a field under a pale, hazy sky. The morning light casts soft shadows across the snow-covered ground. Two haystacks covered in snow sit in a field under a pale, hazy sky. The morning light casts soft shadows across the snow-covered ground. In the fall of 1890, Impressionist Claude Monet arranged to have the wheatstacks near his home left out over the winter. By the following summer he had painted them at least thirty times, at different times throughout the seasons. Wheatstacks was Monet's first series and the first in which he concentrated on a single subject, differentiating pictures only by color, touch, composition, and lighting and weather conditions. He said, "For me a landscape hardly exists at all as a landscape, because its