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

Trees at Varengeville, 1882 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Trees at Varengeville 1882

Oil Painting
$580
Canvas Print
$75.15
SKU: MCL-11143
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 73.5 cm
Private Collection

Vase of Chrysanthemums, 1882 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Vase of Chrysanthemums 1882

Oil Painting
$597
Canvas Print
$89.96
SKU: MCL-11144
Claude Monet
Original Size: 95.3 x 70 cm
Private Collection

Effect of Snow, Limetz, 1886 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Effect of Snow, Limetz 1886

Oil Painting
$580
Canvas Print
$75.00
SKU: MCL-11145
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 81 cm
Private Collection

In the Meadow, 1876 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

In the Meadow 1876

Oil Painting
$608
SKU: MCL-11146
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60.3 x 82 cm
Private Collection

The Church at Vetheuil, 1881 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Church at Vetheuil 1881

Oil Painting
$475
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11147
Claude Monet
Original Size: 47.6 x 73 cm
Private Collection

The Beach at Trouville, 1870 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Beach at Trouville 1870

Oil Painting
$499
Canvas Print
$52.75
SKU: MCL-11149
Claude Monet
Original Size: 50 x 70 cm
Private Collection

The Rose Arches at Giverny, 1913 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Rose Arches at Giverny 1913

Oil Painting
$607
SKU: MCL-11150
Claude Monet
Original Size: 82 x 94 cm
Private Collection

The Road from Chailly to Fontainebleau, c.1864/65 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Road from Chailly to Fontainebleau c.1864/65

Oil Painting
$569
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11151
Claude Monet
Original Size: 98 x 130 cm
Private Collection

The Hunt, 1876 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Hunt 1876

Oil Painting
$757
Canvas Print
$60.18
SKU: MCL-11152
Claude Monet
Original Size: 170 x 137 cm
Private Collection

Still Life with Pheasants and Plovers, 1879 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Still Life with Pheasants and Plovers 1879

Oil Painting
$580
Canvas Print
$57.16
SKU: MCL-11153
Claude Monet
Original Size: 67.9 x 90.2 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA

The Japanese Bridge, c.1923/25 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Japanese Bridge c.1923/25

Oil Painting
$625
Canvas Print
$57.98
SKU: MCL-11154
Claude Monet
Original Size: 88.9 x 116.2 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA

The Seashore at Sainte-Adresse, 1864 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Seashore at Sainte-Adresse 1864

Oil Painting
$507
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11155
Claude Monet
Original Size: 40 x 73 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA

Rouen Cathedral: Setting Sun, 1894 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Rouen Cathedral: Setting Sun 1894

Oil Painting
$662
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11156
Claude Monet
Original Size: 100 x 65 cm
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Break-up of the Ice on the Seine, near Bennecourt, c.1892/93 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Break-up of the Ice on the Seine, near Bennecourt c.1892/93

Oil Painting
$580
Canvas Print
$60.18
SKU: MCL-11157
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 100 cm
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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

London, Houses of Parliament, Sunset 1903

Oil Painting
$620
Canvas Print
$66.10
SKU: MCL-11158
Claude Monet
Original Size: 81.2 x 92 cm
Private Collection

Meadow at Bezons, 1874 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Meadow at Bezons 1874

Oil Painting
$529
Canvas Print
$54.67
SKU: MCL-11159
Claude Monet
Original Size: 57 x 80 cm
Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany

Argenteuil, the Bank in Flower, 1877 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Argenteuil, the Bank in Flower 1877

Oil Painting
$513
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11160
Claude Monet
Original Size: 54 x 65 cm
Private Collection

The Church at Vetheuil, Winter, 1879 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Church at Vetheuil, Winter 1879

Oil Painting
$523
Canvas Print
$81.38
SKU: MCL-11161
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 50 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Vetheuil in the Mist, 1879 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Vetheuil in the Mist 1879

Oil Painting
$536
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11162
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 71 cm
Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France

Sunset on the Seine at Lavacourt, 1880 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Sunset on the Seine at Lavacourt 1880

Oil Painting
$557
SKU: MCL-11163
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 80 cm
Private Collection

The Meadow (La Prairie), 1879 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Meadow (La Prairie) 1879

Oil Painting
$631
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11164
Claude Monet
Original Size: 81.3 x 99.7 cm
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, USA

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

The Sea at Fecamp 1881

Oil Painting
$592
Canvas Print
$75.00
SKU: MCL-11165
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.5 x 82 cm
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

Morning Haze, 1888 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Morning Haze 1888

Oil Painting
$561
Canvas Print
$60.18
SKU: MCL-11166
Claude Monet
Original Size: 74 x 92.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

Field of Oats with Poppies, 1890 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Field of Oats with Poppies 1890

Oil Painting
$487
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11167
Claude Monet
Original Size: 50.8 x 76.2 cm
Private Collection

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