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Claude Monet The Artist-s House at Argenteuil mk197
1873
The Art institute of Chicago
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Claude Monet Camille in the Garden with Jean and his Nanny mk196
1873
Switzerland
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Claude Monet Luncheon mk196
1873
Musee d-Orsay
Paris
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Claude Monet The Artist-s Garden in Argenteuil mk197
1873
National Gallery of Art.
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Claude Monet Blue Shadows Camille in the Garden at Argenteuil mk197
1876
New York
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Claude Monet The Artist-s Garden at Veheuil mk196
1880
Jean-Pierre Hoschede and Michel Monet with an Older girl between sunflowers and pots with gladioli
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Claude Monet Springtime mk196
1886
Fitzwilliam Museum,Cambridge
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Claude Monet Peonies mk196
1887
National Museum of Western Art.
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Claude Monet The Artist-s Garden at Giverny mk196
1900
Yale University Art Gallery.
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Claude Monet Weeping Willow mk196
1918-19
Musee Marmottan
Paris
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Claude Monet The Water Lily Pond at Giverny mk196
1917
Musee de Grenoble
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Claude Monet Lilac Irises mk196
1914-17
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Claude Monet Iris mk196
c.1832
Katsushika Hokusai
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Claude Monet Irises and Water Lillies mk196
1914-17
The Interaction of the lancet-shaped leaves of the irises with the round shape of the water lilies give this composition its vitality
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Claude Monet Yellow Irises with Pink Cloud mk196
in their ornamental clarity,these yellow irises against an unnatural violet sky are very reminiscent of Japanese Prints
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Claude Monet Water Lilies mk196
1916-19
Musee Marmottan
Paris
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Claude Monet Water Lilies mk196
1907
Musee Marmottan
Paris and Bridgestone Museum of Art
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Claude Monet Water Lilies mk196
1907
Impressions from the water garden
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Claude Monet Detail from the Water Lily Pond mk196
1917-19
Museum Folkwang
Essen
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Claude Monet The Japanese Bridge mk196
c.1920-24
Musee Marmottan
Paris
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Claude Monet
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French Impressionist Painter, 1840-1926
Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 C 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting.
Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the ninth arrondissement of Paris . He was the second son of Claude-Adolphe and Louise-Justine Aubree Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians. On 20 May 1841, he was baptised into the local church parish, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette as Oscar-Claude. In 1845, his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy. His father wanted him to go into the family grocery store business, but Claude Monet wanted to become an artist. His mother was a singer.
On the first of April 1851, Monet entered the Le Havre secondary school of the arts. He first became known locally for his charcoal caricatures, which he would sell for ten to twenty francs. Monet also undertook his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard, a former student of Jacques-Louis David. On the beaches of Normandy in about 1856/1857 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.
On 28 January 1857 his mother died. He was 16 years old when he left school, and went to live with his widowed childless aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre.
After several difficult months following the death of Camille on 5 September 1879, a grief-stricken Monet (resolving never to be mired in poverty again) began in earnest to create some of his best paintings of the 19th century. During the early 1880s Monet painted several groups of landscapes and seascapes in what he considered to be campaigns to document the French countryside. His extensive campaigns evolved into his series' paintings.
Camille Monet had become ill with tuberculosis in 1876. Pregnant with her second child she gave birth to Michel Monet in March 1878. In 1878 the Monets temporarily moved into the home of Ernest Hosched, (1837-1891), a wealthy department store owner and patron of the arts. Both families then shared a house in Vetheuil during the summer. After her husband (Ernest Hoschede) became bankrupt, and left in 1878 for Belgium, in September 1879, and while Monet continued to live in the house in Vetheuil; Alice Hosched helped Monet to raise his two sons, Jean and Michel, by taking them to Paris to live alongside her own six children. They were Blanche, Germaine, Suzanne, Marthe, Jean-Pierre, and Jacques. In the spring of 1880 Alice Hosched and all the children left Paris and rejoined Monet still living in the house in Vetheuil. In 1881 all of them moved to Poissy which Monet hated. From the doorway of the little train between Vernon and Gasny he discovered Giverny. In April 1883 they moved to Vernon, then to a house in Giverny, Eure, in Upper Normandy, where he planted a large garden where he painted for much of the rest of his life. Following the death of her estranged husband, Alice Hosched married Claude Monet in 1892.
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