![Portrait of Claude Monet](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/monet000.jpg)
Claude Monet Painting Reproductions 4 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
![Antibes Seen from the Salis Gardens, 1888 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet074.jpg)
Antibes Seen from the Salis Gardens 1888
Oil Painting
$661
$661
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: MCL-2369
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 92 cm
Private Collection
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 92 cm
Private Collection
![Antibes Seen from the Salis Garden, 1888 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet075.jpg)
Antibes Seen from the Salis Garden 1888
Oil Painting
$691
$691
Canvas Print
$59.28
$59.28
SKU: MCL-2370
Claude Monet
Original Size: 73 x 92 cm
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 73 x 92 cm
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
![A Bend in the River Epte, Near Giverny, 1888 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet076.jpg)
A Bend in the River Epte, Near Giverny 1888
Oil Painting
$661
$661
Canvas Print
$60.39
$60.39
SKU: MCL-2371
Claude Monet
Original Size: 73.7 x 92.9 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 73.7 x 92.9 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
![Port-Domois, Belle-Isle, 1887 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet077.jpg)
Port-Domois, Belle-Isle 1887
Oil Painting
$652
$652
Canvas Print
$61.62
$61.62
SKU: MCL-2372
Claude Monet
Original Size: 64.8 x 81.3 cm
Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 64.8 x 81.3 cm
Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut, USA
![Rocks at Port-Goulphar, Belle-Ile, 1886 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet078.jpg)
Rocks at Port-Goulphar, Belle-Ile 1886
Oil Painting
$592
$592
Canvas Print
$60.66
$60.66
SKU: MCL-2373
Claude Monet
Original Size: 66 x 81.8 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 66 x 81.8 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
![Belle Ile, Rain Effect, 1886 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet079.jpg)
Belle Ile, Rain Effect 1886
Oil Painting
$605
$605
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: MCL-2374
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 73 cm
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 73 cm
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
![The 'Pyramids' of Port Coton, Belle Ile en Mer, 1886 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet080.jpg)
The 'Pyramids' of Port Coton, Belle Ile en Mer 1886
Oil Painting
$615
$615
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: MCL-2375
Claude Monet
Original Size: 59.5 x 73 cm
New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
Claude Monet
Original Size: 59.5 x 73 cm
New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
![The 'Pyramids' of Port Coton, Belle Ile en Mer, 1886 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet081.jpg)
The 'Pyramids' of Port Coton, Belle Ile en Mer 1886
Oil Painting
$630
$630
Canvas Print
$52.80
$52.80
SKU: MCL-2376
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 81 cm
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 81 cm
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
![The Rocks, Etretat, 1886 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet082.jpg)
The Rocks, Etretat 1886
Oil Painting
$605
$605
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: MCL-2377
Claude Monet
Original Size: 66 x 81 cm
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
Claude Monet
Original Size: 66 x 81 cm
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
![Haystacks at Giverny, c.1884/89 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet083.jpg)
Haystacks at Giverny c.1884/89
Oil Painting
$605
$605
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: MCL-2378
Claude Monet
Original Size: 64.5 x 81 cm
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
Claude Monet
Original Size: 64.5 x 81 cm
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
![Haystack at Giverny, 1886 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet084.jpg)
Haystack at Giverny 1886
Oil Painting
$569
$569
Canvas Print
$55.84
$55.84
SKU: MCL-2379
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60.5 x 81.5 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60.5 x 81.5 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
![Boating on the River Epte, 1890 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet085.jpg)
Boating on the River Epte 1890
Oil Painting
$619
$619
Canvas Print
$69.76
$69.76
SKU: MCL-2380
Claude Monet
Original Size: 133 x 145 cm
Museu de Arte Assis Chateaubriand, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Claude Monet
Original Size: 133 x 145 cm
Museu de Arte Assis Chateaubriand, Sao Paulo, Brazil
![The Empty Boat, c.1887/90 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet086.jpg)
The Empty Boat c.1887/90
Oil Painting
$583
$583
Canvas Print
$85.78
$85.78
SKU: MCL-2381
Claude Monet
Original Size: 146 x 133 cm
Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France
Claude Monet
Original Size: 146 x 133 cm
Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France
![In the Woods at Giverny (Blanche Hoschede at Her Easel with Suzanne Hoschede Reading), 1887 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet087.jpg)
In the Woods at Giverny (Blanche Hoschede at Her ... 1887
Oil Painting
$667
$667
Canvas Print
$70.86
$70.86
SKU: MCL-2382
Claude Monet
Original Size: 91.4 x 97.8 cm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 91.4 x 97.8 cm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA
![Springtime, 1886 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet088.jpg)
Springtime 1886
Oil Painting
$653
$653
Canvas Print
$60.66
$60.66
SKU: MCL-2383
Claude Monet
Original Size: 64.8 x 80.6 cm
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Claude Monet
Original Size: 64.8 x 80.6 cm
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom
![Poppy Field at Giverny, 1885 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet089.jpg)
Poppy Field at Giverny 1885
Oil Painting
$605
$605
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: MCL-2384
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 73 cm
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 73 cm
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA
![Poppy Field in a Hollow near Giverny, 1885 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet090.jpg)
Poppy Field in a Hollow near Giverny 1885
Oil Painting
$575
$575
Canvas Print
$60.52
$60.52
SKU: MCL-2385
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.1 x 81.3 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.1 x 81.3 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
![The Corniche near Monaco, 1884 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet091.jpg)
The Corniche near Monaco 1884
Oil Painting
$648
$648
Canvas Print
$60.39
$60.39
SKU: MCL-2386
Claude Monet
Original Size: 75 x 94 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Claude Monet
Original Size: 75 x 94 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
![Menton Seen from Cap Martin, 1884 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet092.jpg)
Menton Seen from Cap Martin 1884
Oil Painting
$592
$592
Canvas Print
$52.28
$52.28
SKU: MCL-2387
Claude Monet
Original Size: 67.2 x 81.6 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 67.2 x 81.6 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
![Bordighera, 1884 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet093.jpg)
Bordighera 1884
Oil Painting
$635
$635
Canvas Print
$60.39
$60.39
SKU: MCL-2388
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 81 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65 x 81 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
![Bordighera, Italy, 1884 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet094.jpg)
Bordighera, Italy 1884
Oil Painting
$535
$535
SKU: MCL-2389
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
![Villas at Bordighera, 1884 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet095.jpg)
Villas at Bordighera 1884
Oil Painting
$586
$586
Canvas Print
$79.97
$79.97
SKU: MCL-2390
Claude Monet
Original Size: 115 x 130 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Claude Monet
Original Size: 115 x 130 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
![Palm Trees at Bordighera, 1884 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet096.jpg)
Palm Trees at Bordighera 1884
Oil Painting
$680
$680
Canvas Print
$59.97
$59.97
SKU: MCL-2391
Claude Monet
Original Size: 64.8 x 81.3 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 64.8 x 81.3 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
![Boats on the Beach at Etretat, 1885 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet097.jpg)
Boats on the Beach at Etretat 1885
Oil Painting
$573
$573
Canvas Print
$59.69
$59.69
SKU: MCL-2392
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.5 x 81.3 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 65.5 x 81.3 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA