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.

793 Claude Monet Paintings

Spring Flowers, 1864 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Spring Flowers 1864

Oil Painting
$1246
Canvas Print
$57.85
SKU: MCL-2467
Claude Monet
Original Size: 116.8 x 91 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

Corner of a Studio, 1861 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Corner of a Studio 1861

Oil Painting
$579
Canvas Print
$63.08
SKU: MCL-2468
Claude Monet
Original Size: 182 x 127 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

The Studio Boat, c.1874 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Studio Boat c.1874

Oil Painting
$475
Canvas Print
$58.40
SKU: MCL-2469
Claude Monet
Original Size: 50 x 64 cm
Kroller-Mueller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Le Pave de Chailly (The Road to Bas-Breau, Fontainebleau), 1865 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Le Pave de Chailly (The Road to Bas-Breau, ... 1865

Oil Painting
$393
Canvas Print
$64.58
SKU: MCL-2470
Claude Monet
Original Size: 43.5 x 59 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Woman in the Garden. Sainte Adresse, 1867 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Woman in the Garden. Sainte Adresse 1867

Oil Painting
$500
Canvas Print
$61.58
SKU: MCL-2471
Claude Monet
Original Size: 82 x 101 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Pond at Montgeron, c.1876 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Pond at Montgeron c.1876

Oil Painting
$460
Canvas Print
$66.15
SKU: MCL-2472
Claude Monet
Original Size: 173 x 194 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son, 1875 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son 1875

Oil Painting
$611
Canvas Print
$61.86
SKU: MCL-2473
Claude Monet
Original Size: 100 x 81 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

The Bridge at Argenteuil, 1874 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Bridge at Argenteuil 1874

Oil Painting
$633
Canvas Print
$57.01
SKU: MCL-2474
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 79.7 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

Luncheon on the Grass (Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe), 1866 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Luncheon on the Grass (Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe) 1866

Oil Painting
$1146
Canvas Print
$50.22
SKU: MCL-2475
Claude Monet
Original Size: 130 x 181 cm
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

Bazille and Camille (Study for 'Déjeuner sur l'Herbe'), 1865 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Bazille and Camille (Study for 'Déjeuner sur l'Herbe') 1865

Oil Painting
$325
Canvas Print
$56.59
SKU: MCL-2476
Claude Monet
Original Size: 93 x 68.9 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

A Corner of the Apartment, 1875 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

A Corner of the Apartment 1875

Oil Painting
$535
Canvas Print
$94.14
SKU: MCL-2477
Claude Monet
Original Size: 81.5 x 60.5 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Hunting Trophies, 1862 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Hunting Trophies 1862

Oil Painting
$552
Canvas Print
$91.46
SKU: MCL-2478
Claude Monet
Original Size: 104 x 75 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Farmyard in Normandy, c.1863 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Farmyard in Normandy c.1863

Oil Painting
$571
Canvas Print
$53.12
SKU: MCL-2479
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 81.5 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

The Cart (Road under Snow at Honfleur), 1865 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Cart (Road under Snow at Honfleur) 1865

Oil Painting
$620
Canvas Print
$64.46
SKU: MCL-2480
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 92.5 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

The Pointe de La Heve at Low Tide, 1865 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Pointe de La Heve at Low Tide 1865

Oil Painting
$633
Canvas Print
$50.22
SKU: MCL-2481
Claude Monet
Original Size: 90.2 x 150.5 cm
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, USA

Camille (The Woman in the Green Dress), 1866 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Camille (The Woman in the Green Dress) 1866

Oil Painting
$618
Canvas Print
$50.22
SKU: MCL-2482
Claude Monet
Original Size: 228 x 149 cm
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany

Saint Germain l'Auxerrois, 1866 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Saint Germain l'Auxerrois 1866

Oil Painting
$585
Canvas Print
$50.22
SKU: MCL-2483
Claude Monet
Original Size: 79 x 98 cm
Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany

Garden at Sainte Adresse, 1867 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Garden at Sainte Adresse 1867

Oil Painting
$611
Canvas Print
$57.15
SKU: MCL-2484
Claude Monet
Original Size: 98.1 x 129.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

The Luncheon, 1868 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Luncheon 1868

Oil Painting
$896
Canvas Print
$50.22
SKU: MCL-2485
Claude Monet
Original Size: 230 x 150 cm
Stadel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, 1868 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt 1868

Oil Painting
$518
Canvas Print
$61.44
SKU: MCL-2486
Claude Monet
Original Size: 81.5 x 100.7 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

The Seine at Bougival, c.1869/70 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Seine at Bougival c.1869/70

Oil Painting
$578
Canvas Print
$65.69
SKU: MCL-2487
Claude Monet
Original Size: 63 x 91 cm
Currier Museum of Art, New Hampshire, USA

Train in the Countryside, c.1870/71 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Train in the Countryside c.1870/71

Oil Painting
$371
Canvas Print
$81.78
SKU: MCL-2488
Claude Monet
Original Size: 50 x 65 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Meditation, Madame Monet Sitting on a Sofa, c.1871 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Meditation, Madame Monet Sitting on a Sofa c.1871

Oil Painting
$518
Canvas Print
$60.17
SKU: MCL-2489
Claude Monet
Original Size: 48 x 75 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Houses on the Zaan River at Zaandam, c.1871/72 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Houses on the Zaan River at Zaandam c.1871/72

Oil Painting
$527
Canvas Print
$50.22
SKU: MCL-2490
Claude Monet
Original Size: 48 x 74 cm
Stadel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

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