Portrait of Claude Monet

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1840-1926

French Impressionist Painter

Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) was a French impressionist painter.
Monet was born in Paris, but his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy when he was five. His father wanted him to go into the family grocery store business, but Claude Monet wanted to become an artist.
He first became known locally for his charcoal caricatures, which he would sell for ten to twenty francs. On the beaches of Normandy, he met fellow artist Eugene Boudin, who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Boudin taught Monet en plein air (outdoor) techniques for painting.
When Monet travelled to Paris to visit The Louvre, he would see many painters imitating famous artists' work. Monet, having brought his paints and other tools with him, would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw.
Monet served in the army in Algeria for two years of a seven-year commitment (1860–1862), but upon his contracting typhoid his aunt Madame Lecadre intervened to get him out of the army if he agreed to complete an art course at a university.
Disillusioned with the traditional art taught at universities, instead in 1862 he joined the studio of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met Pierre- Auguste Renoir, Frederic Bazille, and Alfred Sisley. Together they shared new approaches to art, which later came to be known as impressionism, featuring open spaces and light painted with thick brushstrokes.
Monet's 1866 The Woman in the Green Dress (Camille, ou la femme à la robe verte), which brought him recognition, depicted Camille Doncieux. Shortly thereafter Doncieux became pregnant and bore their first child, Jean.
During the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), Monet took refuge in England to avoid the conflict. There he studied the works of John Constable and J. M. W. Turner.
Upon returning to France, in 1872 (or 1873) he painted Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) depicting a Le Havre landscape. It hung in the first impressionist exhibition in 1874 and is now displayed in the Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris. From the painting's title, art critic Louis Leroy coined the term "impressionism".
In 1870, Monet and Doncieux married and in 1873 moved into a house in Argenteuil near the Seine River. They had another son, Michel, on March 17, 1878. Madame Monet died of tuberculosis in 1879.
Alice Hoschedé decided to help Monet by bringing up his two children together with her own. They lived in Poissy, which Monet hated. In April 1883 they moved to a house in Giverny, Eure, in Haute-Normandie, where he planted a large garden which he painted for the rest of his life. Monet and Hoschedé married in 1892.
In the 1880s and 1890s, Monet began "series" painting - paintings of one subject in varying light and viewpoints. His first series is of Rouen Cathedral from different points of view and at different times of the day. Twenty views of the cathedral were exhibited at the Durand-Ruel gallery in 1895. He also made a series of paintings of haystacks.
Water Lily Pond (Le bassin aux Nympheas) 1899 Monet was exceptionally fond of painting controlled nature - his own garden, his water lilies, his pond, and his bridge. He also painted up and down the banks of the Seine.
Between 1883 and 1908, Monet travelled to the Mediterranean and painted many beautiful landscapes and seascapes such as Bordighera. Landmarks were another subject for Monet in the Mediterranean. His wife Alice died in 1911 and his son Jean died in 1914. Cataracts formed on his eyes for which he underwent two surgeries in 1923. He died December 5, 1926 and is buried in the Giverny church cemetery.
In 2004, London, the Parliament, Effects of Sun in the Fog (Le Parlement, Effet de Brouillard) (1904), sold for over U.S. $20 million.

795 Claude Monet Paintings

Cap Martin, n.d. by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Cap Martin n.d.

Oil Painting
$459
Canvas Print
$50.70
SKU: MCL-10898
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Camille Monet and a Child in the Artist's Garden in Argenteuil, 1875 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Camille Monet and a Child in the Artist's Garden ... 1875

Oil Painting
$556
Canvas Print
$64.59
SKU: MCL-10899
Claude Monet
Original Size: 55.3 x 64.7 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA

Fruit Pickers, 1879 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Fruit Pickers 1879

Oil Painting
$768
Canvas Print
$51.85
SKU: MCL-10900
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Railway Bridge at Argenteuil, 1873 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Railway Bridge at Argenteuil 1873

Oil Painting
$687
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10901
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 98.4 cm
Private Collection

View of the Cap d'Antibes with the Mistral Blowing, 1888 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

View of the Cap d'Antibes with the Mistral Blowing 1888

Oil Painting
$580
Canvas Print
$52.61
SKU: MCL-10902
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 81.2 cm
Private Collection

Palazzo da Mula, 1908 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Palazzo da Mula 1908

Oil Painting
$666
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10903
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Gulf of Antibes, 1888 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Gulf of Antibes 1888

Oil Painting
$607
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10904
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 92 cm
Private Collection

Haystacks at Giverny, 1884 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Haystacks at Giverny 1884

Oil Painting
$598
Canvas Print
$53.38
SKU: MCL-10905
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 80 cm
Private Collection

Customs House at Varengeville, 1897 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Customs House at Varengeville 1897

Oil Painting
$597
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10906
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 92 cm
Private Collection

Seine at Rouen, 1872 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Seine at Rouen 1872

Oil Painting
$443
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10907
Claude Monet
Original Size: 54 x 65.5 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Seafront, Fecamp, 1881 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Seafront, Fecamp 1881

Oil Painting
$525
Canvas Print
$52.11
SKU: MCL-10908
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Ravines of the Creuse at the End of the Day, 1889 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Ravines of the Creuse at the End of the Day 1889

Oil Painting
$580
Canvas Print
$60.04
SKU: MCL-10909
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 81 cm
Musee des Beaux Arts, Reims, France

Rising Tide at Pourville, 1882 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Rising Tide at Pourville 1882

Oil Painting
$597
Canvas Print
$53.25
SKU: MCL-10910
Claude Monet
Original Size: 66 x 81.3 cm
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA

Aux Petites Dalles, 1884 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Aux Petites Dalles 1884

Oil Painting
$530
Canvas Print
$52.36
SKU: MCL-10911
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

The Quay at Le Havre, 1868 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Quay at Le Havre 1868

Oil Painting
$616
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10912
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Argenteuil, 1872 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Argenteuil 1872

Oil Painting
$467
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10913
Claude Monet
Original Size: 50 x 65 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

The Bridge at Vervy, 1889 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Bridge at Vervy 1889

Oil Painting
$625
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10914
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 92 cm
Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France

The Blue House, Zaandam, n.d. by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Blue House, Zaandam n.d.

Oil Painting
$548
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10915
Claude Monet
Original Size: 114.3 x 153.7 cm
Private Collection

The Seine at Petit-Gennevilliers, 1872 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Seine at Petit-Gennevilliers 1872

Oil Painting
$438
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10916
Claude Monet
Original Size: 48 x 63.2 cm
Private Collection

Venice - Rio de Santa Salute, 1908 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Venice - Rio de Santa Salute 1908

Oil Painting
$608
Canvas Print
$60.18
SKU: MCL-10917
Claude Monet
Original Size: 81.3 x 64.8 cm
Private Collection

Tulip Fields at Sassenheim near Leiden, 1886 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Tulip Fields at Sassenheim near Leiden 1886

Oil Painting
$530
Canvas Print
$61.98
SKU: MCL-10918
Claude Monet
Original Size: 59.7 x 73.2 cm
The Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts, USA

Pointe De Lailly, Maree Basse, 1882 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Pointe De Lailly, Maree Basse 1882

Oil Painting
$526
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10919
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris, 1877 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris 1877

Oil Painting
$604
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10920
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 80 cm
Private Collection

River Bank at Petit-Gennevilliers, c.1875 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

River Bank at Petit-Gennevilliers c.1875

Oil Painting
$418
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10921
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

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