sisley, and bazille, with whom he was to form the nucleus of the impressionist group. monet's devotion to painting out of doors is illustrated by the famous story concerning one of his most ambitious early works, women in the garden (musée d'orsay, paris; 1866-67). the picture is about 2.5 meters high and to enable him to paint all of it outside he had a trench dug in the garden so that the canvas could be raised or lowered by pulleys to the height he required. courbet visited him when he was working on it and said monet would not paint even the leaves in the background unless the lighting conditions were exactly right.

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