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

Marine View with a Sunset, c.1875 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Marine View with a Sunset c.1875

Oil Painting
$512
Canvas Print
$80.56
SKU: MCL-11073
Claude Monet
Original Size: 49.5 x 65.1 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

Morning Haze, 1894 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Morning Haze 1894

Oil Painting
$558
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11074
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.7 x 100.3 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

Poplars, 1891 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Poplars 1891

Oil Painting
$607
Canvas Print
$51.85
SKU: MCL-11075
Claude Monet
Original Size: 93 x 74.1 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

Port of Le Havre, 1874 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Port of Le Havre 1874

Oil Painting
$723
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11076
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60.3 x 101.9 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

The Grande Creuse at Pont de Vervy, 1889 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Grande Creuse at Pont de Vervy 1889

Oil Painting
$654
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11077
Claude Monet
Original Size: 73.8 x 92.7 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

The Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily Pool, Giverny, 1899 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily Pool, ... 1899

Oil Painting
$669
Canvas Print
$79.19
SKU: MCL-11078
Claude Monet
Original Size: 89.2 x 93.3 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

The Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam (Looking up the Groenburgwal), c.1874 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam (Looking up the Groenburgwal) c.1874

Oil Painting
$488
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11079
Claude Monet
Original Size: 54.4 x 65.4 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

Under the Pines, Evening, 1888 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Under the Pines, Evening 1888

Oil Painting
$608
Canvas Print
$60.18
SKU: MCL-11080
Claude Monet
Original Size: 73 x 92.1 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

Waterloo Bridge, Morning Fog, 1901 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Waterloo Bridge, Morning Fog 1901

Oil Painting
$631
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11081
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.7 x 100.2 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

Cliffs near Pourville, 1882 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Cliffs near Pourville 1882

Oil Painting
$550
Canvas Print
$56.19
SKU: MCL-11082
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60.4 x 80.9 cm
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands

Rocks at Belle-Isle, Port-Domois, 1886 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Rocks at Belle-Isle, Port-Domois 1886

Oil Painting
$608
Canvas Print
$61.98
SKU: MCL-11083
Claude Monet
Original Size: 72.4 x 58.4 cm
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA

The Promenade with the Railroad Bridge, Argenteuil, 1874 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Promenade with the Railroad Bridge, Argenteuil 1874

Oil Painting
$526
Canvas Print
$56.05
SKU: MCL-11084
Claude Monet
Original Size: 53.7 x 72.1 cm
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA

Charing Cross Bridge, 1903 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Charing Cross Bridge 1903

Oil Painting
$592
Canvas Print
$55.64
SKU: MCL-11085
Claude Monet
Original Size: 73 x 104.1 cm
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA

Windmills Near Zaandam, 1871 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Windmills Near Zaandam 1871

Oil Painting
$528
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11086
Claude Monet
Original Size: 40 x 72 cm
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA

The Riverbank at Lavacourt, Snow, 1879 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Riverbank at Lavacourt, Snow 1879

Oil Painting
$537
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11087
Claude Monet
Original Size: 55 x 74 cm
Private Collection

Barges at Asnieres, 1873 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Barges at Asnieres 1873

Oil Painting
$512
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11088
Claude Monet
Original Size: 55 x 74 cm
Private Collection

Spring in Giverny, 1890 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Spring in Giverny 1890

Oil Painting
$633
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11089
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 100 cm
Private Collection

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

The Church af Vetheuil 1878

Oil Painting
$641
SKU: MCL-11090
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 79.5 cm
Private Collection

River at Pourville, Low Tide, 1882 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

River at Pourville, Low Tide 1882

Oil Painting
$544
Canvas Print
$52.74
SKU: MCL-11091
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 81 cm
Private Collection

Banks of the Seine at Port-Villez, 1885 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Banks of the Seine at Port-Villez 1885

Oil Painting
$578
Canvas Print
$52.74
SKU: MCL-11094
Claude Monet
Original Size: 66 x 81.5 cm
Private Collection

Nympheas (Water Lilies), 1904 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Nympheas (Water Lilies) 1904

Oil Painting
$687
Canvas Print
$52.36
SKU: MCL-11095
Claude Monet
Original Size: 81 x 100 cm
Private Collection

Sea View with Cliffs, 1881 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Sea View with Cliffs 1881

Oil Painting
$558
Canvas Print
$52.61
SKU: MCL-11096
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 73 cm
Private Collection

Water Lilies, 1918 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Water Lilies 1918

Oil Painting
$512
Canvas Print
$52.86
SKU: MCL-11097
Claude Monet
Original Size: 64.8 x 54 cm
Private Collection

The Road to the Saint-Simeon Farm in Winter, 1867 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Road to the Saint-Simeon Farm in Winter 1867

Oil Painting
$528
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11098
Claude Monet
Original Size: 49 x 65 cm
Private Collection

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