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

Rouen Cathedral, Facade, 1894 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Rouen Cathedral, Facade 1894

Oil Painting
$696
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11025
Claude Monet
Original Size: 100.6 x 66 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA

The Church at Vetheuil, 1878 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Church at Vetheuil 1878

Oil Painting
$528
Canvas Print
$64.73
SKU: MCL-11026
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.2 x 55.7 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Boats in a Harbour, c.1873 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Boats in a Harbour c.1873

Oil Painting
$561
Canvas Print
$57.16
SKU: MCL-11027
Claude Monet
Original Size: 71.2 x 54 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

A Seascape, Shipping by Moonlight, c.1864 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

A Seascape, Shipping by Moonlight c.1864

Oil Painting
$495
Canvas Print
$61.56
SKU: MCL-11028
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 73.8 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The Houses of Parliament, Sunset, 1903 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Houses of Parliament, Sunset 1903

Oil Painting
$669
Canvas Print
$66.80
SKU: MCL-11029
Claude Monet
Original Size: 81.3 x 92.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

Ships Riding on the Seine at Rouen, c.1872/73 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Ships Riding on the Seine at Rouen c.1872/73

Oil Painting
$443
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11030
Claude Monet
Original Size: 37.7 x 46 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

Bridge at Argenteuil on a Gray Day, c.1876 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Bridge at Argenteuil on a Gray Day c.1876

Oil Painting
$598
Canvas Print
$57.02
SKU: MCL-11031
Claude Monet
Original Size: 61 x 80.3 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

Cliffs at Pourville, 1882 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Cliffs at Pourville 1882

Oil Painting
$580
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11032
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 100 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

The Cradle - Camille with the Artist's Son Jean, 1867 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Cradle - Camille with the Artist's Son Jean 1867

Oil Painting
$616
Canvas Print
$57.98
SKU: MCL-11033
Claude Monet
Original Size: 116.2 x 88.8 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

Sainte-Adresse, 1867 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Sainte-Adresse 1867

Oil Painting
$624
Canvas Print
$52.60
SKU: MCL-11034
Claude Monet
Original Size: 57 x 80 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

Waterloo Bridge, London at Dusk, 1904 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Waterloo Bridge, London at Dusk 1904

Oil Painting
$582
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11035
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.7 x 101.6 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

Haystacks, Snow Effect, 1891 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Haystacks, Snow Effect 1891

Oil Painting
$561
SKU: MCL-11036
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 100 cm
Shelburne Museum, Vermont, USA

Meadow at Giverny, 1894 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Meadow at Giverny 1894

Oil Painting
$569
Canvas Print
$59.49
SKU: MCL-11037
Claude Monet
Original Size: 92 x 73 cm
Art Museum at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA

Water Lilies, 1907 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Water Lilies 1907

Oil Painting
$675
SKU: MCL-11038
Claude Monet
Original Size: 100 x 81 cm
Kuboso Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi, Japan

Water Lilies, c.1914/17 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Water Lilies c.1914/17

Oil Painting
$608
SKU: MCL-11039
Claude Monet
Original Size: 152 x 200 cm
Private Collection

A Stormy Sea, c.1884 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

A Stormy Sea c.1884

Oil Painting
$506
Canvas Print
$50.83
SKU: MCL-11040
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 73.7 cm
National Gallery of Art, Ottawa, Canada

Jean-Pierre Hoschede and Michel Monet on the Banks of the Epte, c.1887/90 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Jean-Pierre Hoschede and Michel Monet on the ... c.1887/90

Oil Painting
$620
Canvas Print
$59.77
SKU: MCL-11041
Claude Monet
Original Size: 76 x 96.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Ottawa, Canada

Rock Needle Seen through the Porte d'Aval, Etretat, 1886 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Rock Needle Seen through the Porte d'Aval, Etretat 1886

Oil Painting
$583
SKU: MCL-11042
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.2 x 92.1 cm
National Gallery of Art, Ottawa, Canada

Water Lilies, c.1916/26 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Water Lilies c.1916/26

Oil Painting
$662
Canvas Print
$58.85
SKU: MCL-11043
Claude Monet
Original Size: 200 x 425.4 cm
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA

The Bridge at Argenteuil, 1874 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Bridge at Argenteuil 1874

Oil Painting
$598
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11044
Claude Monet
Original Size: 59.8 x 81.4 cm
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Water Lilies, c.1915 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Water Lilies c.1915

Oil Painting
$608
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11045
Claude Monet
Original Size: 151.4 x 201 cm
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

The Artist's Garden at Vetheuil, 1881 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Artist's Garden at Vetheuil 1881

Oil Painting
$639
Canvas Print
$52.36
SKU: MCL-11046
Claude Monet
Original Size: 100.3 x 81.3 cm
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, USA

The Entrance to the Port of Le Havre, 1870 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Entrance to the Port of Le Havre 1870

Oil Painting
$525
Canvas Print
$53.00
SKU: MCL-11047
Claude Monet
Original Size: 50.2 x 61.3 cm
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, USA

Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur, 1865 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur 1865

Oil Painting
$619
SKU: MCL-11048
Claude Monet
Original Size: 89.5 x 150.5 cm
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, USA

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