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

Still Life with a Pheasant, c.1861 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Still Life with a Pheasant c.1861

Oil Painting
$553
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10922
Claude Monet
Original Size: 76 x 42.5 cm
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France

The Beach at Pourville, Setting Sun, 1882 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Beach at Pourville, Setting Sun 1882

Oil Painting
$392
Canvas Print
$60.32
SKU: MCL-10923
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 73 cm
Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France

The Banks of the Seine at Argenteuil, 1872 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Banks of the Seine at Argenteuil 1872

Oil Painting
$538
Canvas Print
$50.06
SKU: MCL-10924
Claude Monet
Original Size: 53 x 71 cm
Private Collection

Etretat: The Manneport, Reflections on the Water, 1885 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Etretat: The Manneport, Reflections on the Water 1885

Oil Painting
$530
Canvas Print
$53.51
SKU: MCL-10925
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.8 x 81.5 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

The Port of Honfleur, c.1865 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Port of Honfleur c.1865

Oil Painting
$582
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10926
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Spring in Giverny, 1890 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Spring in Giverny 1890

Oil Painting
$528
Canvas Print
$60.18
SKU: MCL-10927
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.5 x 81.3 cm
The Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts, USA

The Red Road near Menton, 1884 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Red Road near Menton 1884

Oil Painting
$580
Canvas Print
$60.18
SKU: MCL-10928
Claude Monet
Original Size: 66.1 x 82 cm
Private Collection

Vetheuil, View from Lavacourt, 1879 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Vetheuil, View from Lavacourt 1879

Oil Painting
$598
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10929
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 81 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Rocky Point at Port-Goulphar, 1887 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Rocky Point at Port-Goulphar 1887

Oil Painting
$623
Canvas Print
$51.60
SKU: MCL-10930
Claude Monet
Original Size: 72 x 58 cm
Private Collection

The Hollow Needle at Etretat, 1883 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Hollow Needle at Etretat 1883

Oil Painting
$556
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10931
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Falaise d'Etretat, 1883 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Falaise d'Etretat 1883

Oil Painting
$538
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10932
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 80.5 cm
Private Collection

Vetheuil, 1901 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Vetheuil 1901

Oil Painting
$703
Canvas Print
$63.47
SKU: MCL-10933
Claude Monet
Original Size: 89 x 92 cm
Private Collection

The Houses of Parliament, Sunset, 1904 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Houses of Parliament, Sunset 1904

Oil Painting
$592
Canvas Print
$66.93
SKU: MCL-10934
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

The Little Branch of the Seine at Argenteuil, n.d. by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Little Branch of the Seine at Argenteuil n.d.

Oil Painting
$578
Canvas Print
$50.83
SKU: MCL-10935
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Train in the Snow at Argenteuil, n.d. by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Train in the Snow at Argenteuil n.d.

Oil Painting
$582
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10936
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 81.5 cm
Private Collection

Portrait of Blanche Hoschede as a Young Girl, c.1880 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Portrait of Blanche Hoschede as a Young Girl c.1880

Oil Painting
$429
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10937
Claude Monet
Original Size: 46 x 38 cm
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France

Argenteuil, 1875 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Argenteuil 1875

Oil Painting
$561
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10938
Claude Monet
Original Size: 56 x 67 cm
Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, France

Norwegian Landscape, Blue Houses, 1895 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Norwegian Landscape, Blue Houses 1895

Oil Painting
$376
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10939
Claude Monet
Original Size: 61 x 84 cm
Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France

Apples and Grapes, 1880 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Apples and Grapes 1880

Oil Painting
$603
Canvas Print
$60.32
SKU: MCL-10984
Claude Monet
Original Size: 66.2 x 82.3 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Charing Cross Bridge, London, 1901 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Charing Cross Bridge, London 1901

Oil Painting
$544
Canvas Print
$52.89
SKU: MCL-10985
Claude Monet
Original Size: 63.5 x 91.4 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Etretat: The Beach and the Falaise d'Amont, 1885 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Etretat: The Beach and the Falaise d'Amont 1885

Oil Painting
$526
Canvas Print
$72.44
SKU: MCL-10986
Claude Monet
Original Size: 69.3 x 66.1 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Houses of Parliament, London, c.1900/01 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Houses of Parliament, London c.1900/01

Oil Painting
$664
Canvas Print
$66.25
SKU: MCL-10987
Claude Monet
Original Size: 81 x 92 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Poppy Field, Giverny, 1891 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Poppy Field, Giverny 1891

Oil Painting
$641
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-10989
Claude Monet
Original Size: 61.2 x 93.1 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Sandvika, Norway, 1895 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Sandvika, Norway 1895

Oil Painting
$551
Canvas Print
$58.94
SKU: MCL-10990
Claude Monet
Original Size: 73.4 x 92.5 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

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