Jeanne Marguerite Lecadre in the Garden Claude Oscar Monet (1840-1926)

Description of Claude Monet’s painting Lady in the Garden

The full title of the painting is Lady in the Garden of Saint-Adress, painted by the famous French artist Claude Monet in 1867. A favorite theme for the artist’s work is that of nature, his landscapes are unique and always so vivid that the people depicted in them seem to want to merge with that nature, to be absorbed by its marvelous colors.

The painting "Lady in the Garden" was painted at the height of the artist’s career, so the image of the woman is so, beautiful and at the same time intangible. In his later works the artist completely refuses to portray people, giving the main role of nature.

In short, the plot of the painting is as follows:

A sultry summer day, the rays of the sun penetrating every leaf of the tree depicted in the foreground. There is also a strolling girl in a crystal white dress. The artist places the girl and the tree on the same level, which shows his desire to equate nature and man, to say that they are one and therefore both are beautiful. The girl is admiring the flowerbeds and turns half-turned to the viewer, so that her face is not visible. And it’s right nature is faceless, it’s in every blade of grass, and in every flower, as well as in the woman walking under an umbrella.

Nature lives, it is not just frozen in the moment when it was placed on the canvas, it continued its life beyond time, and still gives reason and the girl and all who are interested in the artist’s art to see these changes. The painting glows with each of its points, and the girl is so white that she is comparable not to a person, but to a swan floating along the thicket of bushes and trees.

The huge park, the high crowns of trees and the little girl who admires the surrounding landscape are all Monet himself, his soul, the soul of a true artist, capable of loving and enjoying the world around him.