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Monet: The Magpie

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Original – The Magpie (French title: La Pie): The largest and most widely known of Monet's numerous winter landscapes. (1869).

Reason

The largest and most widely known of Monet's numerous winter landscapes, this painting is noted for its blueish shadows. Monet was a champion of plein air painting, i.e. painting outdoors in the open air. The Magpie is among numerous winter-season paintings presented in the newly created Winter landscapes in Western art.

Articles in which this image appears

The Magpie (Monet), Claude Monet, Winter landscapes in Western art

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Claude Monet

• Support as nominator – Sca (talk) 20:28, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

• Support Monet's best known works are ponds with water lilies, but he is equally great with snow. Hafspajen (talk) 00:11, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

• Support  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:06, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support This was painted before he became famous for what he is famous for... ;-) Very nice indeed. --Janke | Talk 19:48, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support – very nice painting supported by some very informative articles. SagaciousPhil - Chat 10:18, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support ///EuroCarGT 00:43, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support as others. Yann (talk) 19:26, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support. Becky Sayles (talk) 14:25, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Claude Monet - The Magpie - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:43, 30 December 2014 (UTC)