Une Allée du jardin de Monet, Giverny

Une Allée du jardin de Monet, Giverny from 1902, now at the Belvedere in Vienna, depicts a secondary path through the Giverny garden — less dramatic than the Grand Allée but equally characteristic of the garden's cultivated profusion. By 1902 Monet had been gardening at Giverny for nearly twenty years and the property had matured into the elaborate creation he had envisioned. The Belvedere's acquisition of this canvas reflects Vienna's sophisticated engagement with Impressionism in the early twentieth century, when the Secession and its followers were absorbing French influence.

The garden path recedes through an arch of overhanging foliage and climbing flowers, light filtering through vegetation creating a dappled, luminous effect. Monet handles the overhead canopy through loose strokes of varied greens and yellows, the blooms suggested as scattered color touches rather than individually described flowers.