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

The Cliffs at Fecamp, 1881 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Cliffs at Fecamp 1881

Oil Painting
$569
Canvas Print
$60.73
SKU: MCL-11049
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 81.1 cm
Art Gallery and Museums, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Tow-Path at Argenteuil, c.1875 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Tow-Path at Argenteuil c.1875

Oil Painting
$598
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11050
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 100 cm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA

The Palazzo Dario, 1908 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Palazzo Dario 1908

Oil Painting
$662
Canvas Print
$51.34
SKU: MCL-11051
Claude Monet
Original Size: 92.3 x 73.2 cm
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (Morning Effect), 1894 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (Morning Effect) 1894

Oil Painting
$711
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11052
Claude Monet
Original Size: 107 x 74 cm
Beyeler Foundation Collection, Basel, Switzerland

Water Lilies (Agapanthus), c.1915/26 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Water Lilies (Agapanthus) c.1915/26

Oil Painting
$705
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11053
Claude Monet
Original Size: 201.3 x 425.8 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

Gardener's House at Antibes, 1888 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Gardener's House at Antibes 1888

Oil Painting
$631
Canvas Print
$53.85
SKU: MCL-11054
Claude Monet
Original Size: 66.3 x 93 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

Monet's Garden at Giverny, 1895 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Monet's Garden at Giverny 1895

Oil Painting
$704
Canvas Print
$66.38
SKU: MCL-11055
Claude Monet
Original Size: 81.5 x 92 cm
E.G. Buhrle Foundation Collection, Zurich, Switzerland

Sailboats on the Seine, 1874 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Sailboats on the Seine 1874

Oil Painting
$507
Canvas Print
$63.08
SKU: MCL-11056
Claude Monet
Original Size: 54 x 65.4 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, USA

Waves Breaking, 1881 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Waves Breaking 1881

Oil Painting
$544
Canvas Print
$92.45
SKU: MCL-11057
Claude Monet
Original Size: 59.7 x 81.3 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, USA

The Lily Pond, 1916 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Lily Pond 1916

Oil Painting
$618
Canvas Print
$50.00
SKU: MCL-11058
Claude Monet
Original Size: 130.5 x 200.5 cm
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Landscape at Vetheuil, 1880 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Landscape at Vetheuil 1880

Oil Painting
$551
Canvas Print
$69.80
SKU: MCL-11059
Claude Monet
Original Size: 59.7 x 80 cm
Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, United Kingdom

The Studio Boat, 1875 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Studio Boat 1875

Oil Painting
$513
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11060
Claude Monet
Original Size: 54 x 65 cm
Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Neuchatel, Switzerland

Nympheas, 1915 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Nympheas 1915

Oil Painting
$652
Canvas Print
$55.17
SKU: MCL-11061
Claude Monet
Original Size: 130 x 153 cm
Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France

Quiet Time, Fecamp, 1881 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Quiet Time, Fecamp 1881

Oil Painting
$506
SKU: MCL-11062
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 73.5 cm
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland

View of Vetheuil, 1880 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

View of Vetheuil 1880

Oil Painting
$607
SKU: MCL-11063
Claude Monet
Original Size: 80.9 x 65.1 cm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA

Towing a Boat, Honfleur, 1864 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Towing a Boat, Honfleur 1864

Oil Painting
$553
SKU: MCL-11064
Claude Monet
Original Size: 55.2 x 82.1 cm
Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York, USA

Snow in Argenteuil, 1875 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Snow in Argenteuil 1875

Oil Painting
$488
SKU: MCL-11065
Claude Monet
Original Size: 55.5 x 65 cm
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan

Road of La Roche-Guyon, 1880 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Road of La Roche-Guyon 1880

Oil Painting
$548
SKU: MCL-11066
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60.5 x 73 cm
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan

On the Boat, 1887 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

On the Boat 1887

Oil Painting
$662
SKU: MCL-11067
Claude Monet
Original Size: 145.5 x 133.5 cm
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan

Coast of Normandy, 1882 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Coast of Normandy 1882

Oil Painting
$592
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11068
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.1 x 81.6 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

Flowers in a Vase, 1888 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Flowers in a Vase 1888

Oil Painting
$438
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11069
Claude Monet
Original Size: 80 x 45.1 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

Green Park, London, c.1870/71 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Green Park, London c.1870/71

Oil Painting
$475
SKU: MCL-11070
Claude Monet
Original Size: 34.3 x 72.5 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

Japanese Footbridge, Giverny, 1895 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Japanese Footbridge, Giverny 1895

Oil Painting
$664
Canvas Print
$61.70
SKU: MCL-11071
Claude Monet
Original Size: 78.7 x 97.8 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

Manne-Porte, Etretat, 1885 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Manne-Porte, Etretat 1885

Oil Painting
$580
Canvas Print
$60.59
SKU: MCL-11072
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.4 x 81.3 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

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