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This beautiful publication highlights a treasured painting in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts Rounded Flower Bed Corbeille de fleurs by Claude Monet 1840 1926 The canvas was painted while Monet lived in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil from late 1871 to early 1878 during which time Monet banded with other painters to form the group now known as the Impressionists Framing Life brings Rounded Flower Bed Corbeille de fleurs together with other canvases by both Monet and fellow Impressionist Pierre Auguste Renoir to trace how this painting fits into the history of Impressionism broadly The text also describes new findings uncovered in a recent technical analysis of the Monet masterpiece Distributed for the Detroit Institute of Arts Exhibition Detroit Institute of Arts 10 22 17 03 04 18 Monet Framing Life