![Portrait of Claude Monet](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/monet000.jpg)
Claude Monet Painting Reproductions 6 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 Thaw on the Seine, near Vetheuil, 1880 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet123.jpg)
The Thaw on the Seine, near Vetheuil 1880
Oil Painting
$548
$548
Canvas Print
$56.11
$56.11
SKU: MCL-2419
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 100 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60 x 100 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
![Woman Seated under the Willows, 1880 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet124.jpg)
Woman Seated under the Willows 1880
Oil Painting
$619
$619
Canvas Print
$55.70
$55.70
SKU: MCL-2420
Claude Monet
Original Size: 81.1 x 60 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 81.1 x 60 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
![Chrysanthemums, 1878 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet125.jpg)
Chrysanthemums 1878
Oil Painting
$694
$694
Canvas Print
$64.79
$64.79
SKU: MCL-2421
Claude Monet
Original Size: 53.5 x 61.5 cm
Private Collection
Claude Monet
Original Size: 53.5 x 61.5 cm
Private Collection
![Entrance to the Village of Vetheuil in Winter, 1879 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet126.jpg)
Entrance to the Village of Vetheuil in Winter 1879
Oil Painting
$641
$641
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: MCL-2422
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60.6 x 81 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60.6 x 81 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
![The Church at Vetheuil, Snow, c.1878/79 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet127.jpg)
The Church at Vetheuil, Snow c.1878/79
Oil Painting
$577
$577
Canvas Print
$57.22
$57.22
SKU: MCL-2423
Claude Monet
Original Size: 52 x 71 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Claude Monet
Original Size: 52 x 71 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
![The Gare St-Lazare, 1877 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet128.jpg)
The Gare St-Lazare 1877
Oil Painting
$569
$569
Canvas Print
$66.97
$66.97
SKU: MCL-2424
Claude Monet
Original Size: 54.3 x 73.6 cm
National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Claude Monet
Original Size: 54.3 x 73.6 cm
National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
![The Saint Lazare Station, 1877 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet129.jpg)
The Saint Lazare Station 1877
Oil Painting
$569
$569
Canvas Print
$56.52
$56.52
SKU: MCL-2425
Claude Monet
Original Size: 75.5 x 104 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Claude Monet
Original Size: 75.5 x 104 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
![The Pont de l'Europe, Saint Lazare Station, 1877 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet130.jpg)
The Pont de l'Europe, Saint Lazare Station 1877
Oil Painting
$634
$634
Canvas Print
$61.21
$61.21
SKU: MCL-2426
Claude Monet
Original Size: 64 x 81 cm
Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France
Claude Monet
Original Size: 64 x 81 cm
Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France
![The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil, c.1873/74 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet131.jpg)
The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil c.1873/74
Oil Painting
$553
$553
Canvas Print
$70.79
$70.79
SKU: MCL-2427
Claude Monet
Original Size: 55 x 72 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Claude Monet
Original Size: 55 x 72 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
![Snow at Argenteuil, c.1874/75 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet132.jpg)
Snow at Argenteuil c.1874/75
Oil Painting
$553
$553
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: MCL-2428
Claude Monet
Original Size: 54.6 x 73.7 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 54.6 x 73.7 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
![Boulevard Saint-Denis, Argenteuil, in Winter, 1875 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet133.jpg)
Boulevard Saint-Denis, Argenteuil, in Winter 1875
Oil Painting
$625
$625
Canvas Print
$55.84
$55.84
SKU: MCL-2429
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60.9 x 81.6 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60.9 x 81.6 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
![The Rue Montorgueil, Paris, Celebration of June 30, 1878 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet134.jpg)
The Rue Montorgueil, Paris, Celebration of June 30 1878
Oil Painting
$629
$629
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: MCL-2430
Claude Monet
Original Size: 80 x 48.5 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Claude Monet
Original Size: 80 x 48.5 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
![The Boulevard des Capucines, 1873 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet135.jpg)
The Boulevard des Capucines 1873
Oil Painting
$946
$946
Canvas Print
$57.22
$57.22
SKU: MCL-2431
Claude Monet
Original Size: 61 x 80 cm
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
Claude Monet
Original Size: 61 x 80 cm
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
![The Bridge at Argenteuil, 1874 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet136.jpg)
The Bridge at Argenteuil 1874
Oil Painting
$693
$693
Canvas Print
$56.79
$56.79
SKU: MCL-2432
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60.5 x 80 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60.5 x 80 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
![Banks of the Seine, Vetheuil, 1880 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet137.jpg)
Banks of the Seine, Vetheuil 1880
Oil Painting
$634
$634
Canvas Print
$55.14
$55.14
SKU: MCL-2433
Claude Monet
Original Size: 73.4 x 100.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 73.4 x 100.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
![Autumn Effect at Argenteuil, 1873 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet138.jpg)
Autumn Effect at Argenteuil 1873
Oil Painting
$572
$572
Canvas Print
$56.52
$56.52
SKU: MCL-2434
Claude Monet
Original Size: 55 x 74.5 cm
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, United Kingdom
Claude Monet
Original Size: 55 x 74.5 cm
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, United Kingdom
![The Sheltered Path, 1873 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet139.jpg)
The Sheltered Path 1873
Oil Painting
$521
$521
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: MCL-2435
Claude Monet
Original Size: 54.1 x 65.7 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 54.1 x 65.7 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
![The Artist's Garden in Argenteuil (The Dahlias), 1873 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet140.jpg)
The Artist's Garden in Argenteuil (The Dahlias) 1873
Oil Painting
$802
$802
Canvas Print
$56.66
$56.66
SKU: MCL-2436
Claude Monet
Original Size: 61 x 82.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 61 x 82.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
![Meadow with Poplars (Poplars near Argenteuil), 1875 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet141.jpg)
Meadow with Poplars (Poplars near Argenteuil) 1875
Oil Painting
$586
$586
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: MCL-2437
Claude Monet
Original Size: 54.6 x 65.4 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 54.6 x 65.4 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
![Landscape: The Parc Monceau, Paris, 1876 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet142.jpg)
Landscape: The Parc Monceau, Paris 1876
Oil Painting
$651
$651
Canvas Print
$55.42
$55.42
SKU: MCL-2438
Claude Monet
Original Size: 59.7 x 82.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 59.7 x 82.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
![Spring (Fruit Trees in Bloom), 1873 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet143.jpg)
Spring (Fruit Trees in Bloom) 1873
Oil Painting
$652
$652
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: MCL-2439
Claude Monet
Original Size: 62.2 x 100.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 62.2 x 100.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
![Camille Monet at the Window, Argenteuil, 1873 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet144.jpg)
Camille Monet at the Window, Argenteuil 1873
Oil Painting
$503
$503
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: MCL-2440
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60.3 x 49.8 cm
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60.3 x 49.8 cm
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA
![The Artist's House at Argenteuil, 1873 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet145.jpg)
The Artist's House at Argenteuil 1873
Oil Painting
$605
$605
Canvas Print
$61.48
$61.48
SKU: MCL-2441
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60.2 x 73.3 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Claude Monet
Original Size: 60.2 x 73.3 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
![Windmill at Zaandam, 1872 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Claude_Oscar_Monet/paintings-lg/monet146.jpg)
Windmill at Zaandam 1872
Oil Painting
$409
$409
Canvas Print
$50.03
$50.03
SKU: MCL-2442
Claude Monet
Original Size: 48 x 73.5 cm
New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
Claude Monet
Original Size: 48 x 73.5 cm
New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark