Meules, milieu du jour [Haystacks, midday]

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This is one of eight paintings of stacks of wheat that Monet began in the late summer and. autumn of 1890.1 Of these eight paintings, six, including the Australian National Gallery 's picture, share a similar format of two stacks with the nearer one at the right silhouetted against a field, a band of trees, hills and sky.2 The stacks were in a field adjoining Monet's own property at Giverny, a village in the Seine Valley about 80 kilometres north-west of Paris.3 Painting the stacks 'contre-jour', against the sun, Monet would have been facing south-west over the field to the hills that rise on the far bank of the Seine between Port Villez and Le Grand Val. Title Meules, milieu du jour [Haystacks, midday] Creator Claude MONET Creator Lifespan 1840 - 1926 Creator Death Place France Creator Birth Place France Date Created 1890 Location France Physical Dimensions w1006 x h656 cm Type Painting,oil on canvas Rights Purchased 1979 Show more