Claude Monet Painting Reproductions 33 of 34
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.
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 Mediterranean by Mistral Wind 1888
Oil Painting
$569
$569
Canvas Print
$53.16
$53.16
SKU: MCL-16988
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 92.3 cm
Private Collection
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 92.3 cm
Private Collection
Lemons on a Branch 1884
Oil Painting
$548
$548
Canvas Print
$63.08
$63.08
SKU: MCL-16989
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.5 x 54.3 cm
Private Collection
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.5 x 54.3 cm
Private Collection
Vetheuil 1880
Oil Painting
$557
$557
Canvas Print
$56.47
$56.47
SKU: MCL-16990
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 80 cm
Private Collection
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 80 cm
Private Collection
Near Monte Carlo 1883
Oil Painting
$578
$578
Canvas Print
$60.88
$60.88
SKU: MCL-16991
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.6 x 82 cm
Private Collection
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.6 x 82 cm
Private Collection
The Garden of Vétheuil 1881
Oil Painting
$585
$585
Canvas Print
$60.32
$60.32
SKU: MCL-16993
Claude Monet
Original Size: 59.5 x 74.5 cm
Private Collection
Claude Monet
Original Size: 59.5 x 74.5 cm
Private Collection
Under the Poplars 1887
Oil Painting
$614
$614
Canvas Print
$60.04
$60.04
SKU: MCL-16994
Claude Monet
Original Size: 73 x 92 cm
Denver Museum of Art, Colorado, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 73 x 92 cm
Denver Museum of Art, Colorado, USA
Etretat, Cliff and Upstream Gate 1883
Oil Painting
$569
$569
Canvas Print
$61.01
$61.01
SKU: MCL-16995
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 81 cm
Private Collection
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 81 cm
Private Collection
Nympheas at Giverny 1908
Oil Painting
$654
$654
Canvas Print
$72.72
$72.72
SKU: MCL-17196
Claude Monet
Original Size: 92 x 89 cm
Private Collection
Claude Monet
Original Size: 92 x 89 cm
Private Collection
The Waterlily Pond 1904
Oil Painting
$686
$686
Canvas Print
$74.92
$74.92
SKU: MCL-17197
Claude Monet
Original Size: 90 x 92 cm
Private Collection
Claude Monet
Original Size: 90 x 92 cm
Private Collection
The Japanese Footbridge 1899
Oil Painting
$744
$744
Canvas Print
$60.88
$60.88
SKU: MCL-17768
Claude Monet
Original Size: 81.3 x 101.6 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 81.3 x 101.6 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Poppy Field 1926
Oil Painting
$569
$569
Canvas Print
$55.37
$55.37
SKU: MCL-18087
Claude Monet
Original Size: 58 x 79 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Claude Monet
Original Size: 58 x 79 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Water Lily Pond (Clouds) 1903
Oil Painting
$708
$708
Canvas Print
$51.65
$51.65
SKU: MCL-18138
Claude Monet
Original Size: 74.6 x 108 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 74.6 x 108 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Poplars, Pink Effect 1891
Oil Painting
$625
$625
Canvas Print
$58.94
$58.94
SKU: MCL-18139
Claude Monet
Original Size: 94 x 75 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 94 x 75 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
The Seine at Lavacourt 1880
Oil Painting
$707
$707
Canvas Print
$50.27
$50.27
SKU: MCL-18140
Claude Monet
Original Size: 98.4 x 149.2 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 98.4 x 149.2 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
The Houses in the Snow, Norway 1895
Oil Painting
$549
$549
Canvas Print
$52.89
$52.89
SKU: MCL-18305
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.5 x 92.7 cm
Denver Museum of Art, Colorado, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.5 x 92.7 cm
Denver Museum of Art, Colorado, USA
Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect 1903
Oil Painting
$636
$636
Canvas Print
$49.98
$49.98
SKU: MCL-18306
Claude Monet
Original Size: 63.5 x 98.4 cm
Denver Museum of Art, Colorado, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 63.5 x 98.4 cm
Denver Museum of Art, Colorado, USA
Waterlilies or The Water Lily Pond (Nympheas) 1904
Oil Painting
$688
$688
Canvas Print
$72.72
$72.72
SKU: MCL-18307
Claude Monet
Original Size: 88 x 91.4 cm
Denver Museum of Art, Colorado, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 88 x 91.4 cm
Denver Museum of Art, Colorado, USA
The Seine near Giverny 1885
Oil Painting
$563
$563
Canvas Print
$53.85
$53.85
SKU: MCL-18308
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 92 cm
Denver Museum of Art, Colorado, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 92 cm
Denver Museum of Art, Colorado, USA
Cliffs near Dieppe 1882
Oil Painting
$551
$551
Canvas Print
$55.64
$55.64
SKU: MCL-18642
Claude Monet
Original Size: 59.7 x 81.3 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 59.7 x 81.3 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
The Sea at Le Havre 1868
Oil Painting
$556
$556
Canvas Print
$54.67
$54.67
SKU: MCL-18643
Claude Monet
Original Size: 59.7 x 81.3 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 59.7 x 81.3 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Water Lilies (Nympheas) c.1915/26
Oil Painting
$841
$841
Canvas Print
$49.98
$49.98
SKU: MCL-18644
Claude Monet
Original Size: 197.9 x 596.6 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 197.9 x 596.6 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Cliff Walk at Pourville (Detail) 1882
Oil Painting
$604
$604
SKU: MCL-18789
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Storm in Belle-Ile 1886
Oil Painting
$556
$556
Canvas Print
$62.39
$62.39
SKU: MCL-18826
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60.5 x 73.8 cm
Private Collection
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60.5 x 73.8 cm
Private Collection
Frost 1875
Oil Painting
$585
$585
Canvas Print
$61.70
$61.70
SKU: MCL-19614
Claude Monet
Original Size: 50 x 61 cm
Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
Claude Monet
Original Size: 50 x 61 cm
Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany