• The Magpie (French: La Pie) is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the French Impressionist Claude Monet, created during the winter of 1868–1869 near...
  • Monet takes the simple theme of a single magpie sitting on the gate for the focus of his piece.
  • The Magpie is a representation of Monet’s masterful recreation of sunlight and shadows.
  • Claude Monet painted Magpie during the winter of 1868-1869. It is an oil on canvas that measures 130 cm long by 89 cm high (51 in by 35 in).
  • The Magpie has now become one of Monet's most popular pieces and modern day critics have claimed it is one of Monet's best snowscapes.
  • The Magpie is an Impressionist Oil on Paper Painting created by Claude Monet from 1868 to 1869.
  • The Magpie by Claude Monet (1868). Being in a much milder, wetter and windy climate it is always a novelty to see snow except atop distant mountains and for...
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  • The novelty and daring of Monet's approach, which was more about perception than description, explain the painting's rejection by the jury of the 1869 salon.
  • Monet’s father wanted Claude to follow him into the family line, but, from a young age, Monet showed an uncanny aptitude for art.