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

Oat and Poppy Field, 1890 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Oat and Poppy Field 1890

Oil Painting
$580
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11168
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 92 cm
Art Museums, Strasbourg, France

The Road to Vetheuil, 1879 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Road to Vetheuil 1879

Oil Painting
$521
Canvas Print
$61.28
SKU: MCL-11169
Claude Monet
Original Size: 59.4 x 72.7 cm
Phillips Collection, Washington, USA

Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect, 1903 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect 1903

Oil Painting
$631
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11170
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 100 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA

Waterloo Bridge, Sun Effect with Smoke, 1903 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Waterloo Bridge, Sun Effect with Smoke 1903

Oil Painting
$630
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11171
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 100 cm
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland, USA

Water Lilies (Nympheas), 1908 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Water Lilies (Nympheas) 1908

Oil Painting
$662
Canvas Print
$61.98
SKU: MCL-11172
Claude Monet
Original Size: 100 x 81 cm
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Willow Fronds and Water Lilies, c.1916/19 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Willow Fronds and Water Lilies c.1916/19

Oil Painting
$652
Canvas Print
$68.03
SKU: MCL-11173
Claude Monet
Original Size: 197 x 150 cm
Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France

Stormy Seascape, 1867 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Stormy Seascape 1867

Oil Painting
$452
Canvas Print
$56.47
SKU: MCL-11174
Claude Monet
Original Size: 48.7 x 64.6 cm
The Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts, USA

The Thames at London, 1871 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Thames at London 1871

Oil Painting
$488
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11175
Claude Monet
Original Size: 48.5 x 74.5 cm
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Mills in the Westziderveld near Zaandam, 1871 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Mills in the Westziderveld near Zaandam 1871

Oil Painting
$467
SKU: MCL-11176
Claude Monet
Original Size: 47 x 73.5 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

A Mill near Zaandam, 1871 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

A Mill near Zaandam 1871

Oil Painting
$380
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11177
Claude Monet
Original Size: 42 x 73.5 cm
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom

Vallee de Sasso, Sunshine, 1884 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Vallee de Sasso, Sunshine 1884

Oil Painting
$616
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-11203
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 81 cm
Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France

The Doge's Palace Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore, 1908 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Doge's Palace Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore 1908

Oil Painting
$648
Canvas Print
$53.02
SKU: MCL-11204
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.4 x 92.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

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

Hemerocallis c.1914/17

Oil Painting
$620
Canvas Print
$69.82
SKU: MCL-11205
Claude Monet
Original Size: 150 x 140 cm
Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France

Promenade near Argenteuil, c.1873/75 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Promenade near Argenteuil c.1873/75

Oil Painting
$590
Canvas Print
$56.32
SKU: MCL-16420
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 81 cm
Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France

Women Amidst Flowers, 1875 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Women Amidst Flowers 1875

Oil Painting
$526
Canvas Print
$64.45
SKU: MCL-16460
Claude Monet
Original Size: 54.5 x 65.5 cm
National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

Willows at Vetheuil, 1880 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Willows at Vetheuil 1880

Oil Painting
$530
Canvas Print
$60.88
SKU: MCL-16461
Claude Monet
Original Size: 66.6 x 82 cm
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

Spring, 1882 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Spring 1882

Oil Painting
$525
Canvas Print
$58.12
SKU: MCL-16462
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 79 cm
Musee des Beaux Arts, Lyon, France

Waterloo Bridge - Overcast Skies, 1903 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Waterloo Bridge - Overcast Skies 1903

Oil Painting
$631
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-16467
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.5 x 100.5 cm
Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen, Denmark

Nympheas - Morning (Detail), c.1914/18 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Nympheas - Morning (Detail) c.1914/18

Oil Painting
$1061
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-16470
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, France

Boats Lying at Low Tide at Fecamp, 1881 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Boats Lying at Low Tide at Fecamp 1881

Oil Painting
$580
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-16623
Claude Monet
Original Size: 80.3 x 66 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Irises, 1914 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Irises 1914

Oil Painting
$651
Canvas Print
$75.47
SKU: MCL-16624
Claude Monet
Original Size: 200 x 200.7 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Water Lily Pond, c.1917/19 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Water Lily Pond c.1917/19

Oil Painting
$662
Canvas Print
$49.98
SKU: MCL-16625
Claude Monet
Original Size: 130.2 x 202 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Water Lilies, 1906 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Water Lilies 1906

Oil Painting
$742
Canvas Print
$67.35
SKU: MCL-16942
Claude Monet
Original Size: 88.5 x 100 cm
Private Collection

Water Lilies, c.1915-26 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Water Lilies c.1915-26

Oil Painting
$701
Canvas Print
$58.67
SKU: MCL-16973
Claude Monet
Original Size: 200 x 426 cm
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA

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