Image: National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
The National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo is highlighting an early landscape by Claude Monet, painted in 1864 and described by the museum as one of the earliest Monet works in its collection.
The featured painting, ‘The Lane (Road to Saint-Siméon Farm)’, is being presented as part of the museum’s commemoration of the centenary of Monet’s death. The institution’s post draws attention to the artist’s early landscape practice and to a work made before the mature Impressionist period with which Monet is most widely associated.
Monet worked on the painting during the summer of 1864 in Honfleur, in Normandy. He was there with the painter Frédéric Bazille, according to the National Museum of Western Art. The coastal town and its surrounding landscape became an important setting for Monet’s early artistic activity.
The museum identifies the work as ‘The Lane (Road to Saint-Siméon Farm)’ in Japanese as ‘並木道（サン＝シメオン農場の道）’. Its description places particular emphasis on the painting’s date, making it a point of entry into Monet’s beginnings as a landscape painter.
The National Museum of Western Art, established in Tokyo as a museum devoted to Western art, holds works by Monet among its collection. The institution’s feature does not announce a separate exhibition or event associated with the painting; it is a collection-focused presentation published on 26 August 2026.
The post also frames the work within the museum’s broader observance of Monet’s centenary, directing attention to an early stage of his career through a single landscape from 1864. No further programme details or exhibition dates were provided.
