Blanche is completely under the influence of Claude Monet. She is not only using the same palette and the same colors, but she herself painted at Monet's side; and we are tempted to say that the student has reached the level of the master. Claude Monet’s art dealer, Durand-Ruel, purchased a haystack painting by Blanche Hoschedé Monet, which is presently hanging in Claude Monet’s house in Giverny. The grainstack, formed when the grain has ripened and turned to gold, is a symbol of rural tradition.  Blanche has captured the golden light in a view to the southwest, toward the hills of Giverny that extend along the left bank. Light floods the scene and emanates from the painting, whose interaction of light and color in the grain, the sky and the soil produce a festival of orange, yellow, brown and gold that, with the blue colors of the hills, creates a striking vision of Giverny

Provenance:

Gift from Blanche  to her sister, Marthe Hoschedé-Butler

By descent through the family