Detail of The Stroller by Monet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2010

The Stroller (Suzanne Hoschedé, later Mrs. Theodore Earl Butler, 1868–1899)

Claude Monet
(French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny)

Date: 1887

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 39 5/8 x 27 3/4 in. (100.6 x 70.5 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002

Accession Number: 2003.20.7

Gallery Label: This painting of Suzanne Hoschedé in the meadows just south of Le Pressoir, Monet's home at Giverny, was probably made in the summer of 1887. She became Monet's preferred model in the period after the death of his first wife, Camille, in 1879, and before 1890, when he gave up plein-air figure painting. The model was the daughter of Alice Hoschedé, whom Monet married in 1892.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/438006