Claude Oscar Monet
Claude Monet, photo by Nadar, 1899.
Birth name	Claude Oscar Monet
Born	November 14, 1840(1840-11-14) Paris, France
Died	December 5, 1926 (aged 86) Giverny, France
Nationality	French
Field	Painter
Movement	Impressionism
Works	Impression, Sunrise Rouen Cathedral series London Parliament series Water Lilies Haystacks

Claude Monet (French pronounced [klod mɔnɛ]) also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926)^[1] 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. Events 1533 - Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca Year 1840 ( MDCCCXL) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Events 63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Giverny (ʒivɛʀˈni is a commune of the Eure department in northern France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Legal residents and citizens To be French according to the first article of the Constitution is to be a citizen of France regardless of one's origin race or religion ( Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e Impressionism was a 19th-century Art movement that began as a loose association of Paris -based Artists exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s Impression Sunrise (Impression soleil levant is a painting by Claude Monet, for which the Impressionist movement was named Claude Monet painted a series of paintings of the Rouen Cathedral. Claude Monet painted a series of paintings of the Palace of Westminster, home of the British Parliament, during his stay in London. Water Lilies (or Nympheas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926 Haystacks is the title of a series of impressionist Paintings by Claude Monet. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people Events 1533 - Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca Year 1840 ( MDCCCXL) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Events 63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Impressionism was a 19th-century Art movement that began as a loose association of Paris -based Artists exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s En plein air is a French expression which means "in the open air" and is particularly used to describe the act of Painting outdoors For the art of designing external spaces see Landscape architecture. ^[2] The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise. Impression Sunrise (Impression soleil levant is a painting by Claude Monet, for which the Impressionist movement was named

Early life

Monet was born on November 14, 1840 on the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the ninth arrondissement of Paris. Events 1533 - Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca Year 1840 ( MDCCCXL) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city ^[3] He was the second son of Claude-Adolphe and Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians. On May 20, 1841, he was baptized into the local church parish, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette as Oscar-Claude. Events 325 - The First Council of Nicaea &ndash the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held For the game see 1841 (board game. Year 1841 ( MDCCCXLI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link ^[3] In 1845, his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy. Le Havre is a city in the northwest region of France situated on the right bank of the mouth of the Seine River as it outlets into the Bay of the Seine Normandy (Normandie Norman: Normaundie) is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of 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. Origins The franc was originally a French Gold coin of 387 g minted in 1360 on the occasion of the release of King John II ("the good", held by the Monet also undertook his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard, a former student of Jacques-Louis David. Jacques-François Ochard (1800-1870 was a French artist remembered as the first art teacher of Claude Monet at his high school Jacques-Louis David (August 30 1748 &ndash December 29 1825 was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style considered to be On the beaches of Normandy in about 1856/1857 he met fellow artist Eugène Boudin who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Eugène Boudin ( July 12, 1824 &ndash August 8, 1898) was one of the first French Landscape painters to paint outdoors Boudin taught Monet "en plein air" (outdoor) techniques for painting. En plein air is a French expression which means "in the open air" and is particularly used to describe the act of Painting outdoors ^[4]

On 28 January 1857 his mother died. Events 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The Excommunication of Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor is lifted Click here for Indian Rebellion of 1857 Year 1857 ( MDCCCLVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the He was 16 years old when he left school, and went to live with his widowed childless aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre.

Paris

On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, 1868. An early example of plein-air impressionism, in which a gestural and suggestive use of oil paint was presented as a finished work of art.

When Monet traveled to Paris to visit The Louvre, he witnessed painters copying from the old masters. The Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre located in Paris is the world's most visited art museum a historic monument and a national museum of France Monet, having brought his paints and other tools with him, would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw. Monet was in Paris for several years and met several painters who would become friends and fellow impressionists. One of those friends was Édouard Manet.

In June of 1861 Monet joined the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry in Algeria for two years of a seven-year commitment, but upon his contracting typhoid his aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre intervened to get him out of the army if he agreed to complete an art course at a university. Algeria ( ar [[Arabic]] الجزائر, Al Jaza'ir ælʤæˈzæːʔir Amazigh: ⴷⵥⴰⵢⴻⵔ Dzayer) officially the People's It is possible that the Dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind, whom Monet knew, may have prompted his aunt on this matter. Johan Barthold Jongkind ( June 3, 1819 &ndash February 9, 1891) was a Dutch painter and printmaker regarded Disillusioned with the traditional art taught at universities, in 1862 Monet became a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille, and Alfred Sisley. Charles Gleyre (full name Marc Gabriel Charles Gleyre (Chevilly Vaud canton 2 May 1806 - 5 May 1874) was a Swiss Pierre-Auguste Renoir ( February 25, 1841 &ndash December 3, 1919) was a French Artist who was a leading painter in Jean Frédéric Bazille ( December 6 1841 – November 28 1870) was a French Impressionist painter whose major works often Alfred Sisley ( October 30, 1839 &ndash January 29, 1899) was an English Impressionist landscape painter who Together they shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plein air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism. En plein air is a French expression which means "in the open air" and is particularly used to describe the act of Painting outdoors Impressionism was a 19th-century Art movement that began as a loose association of Paris -based Artists exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s

Monet's Camille or The Woman in the Green Dress (La Femme à la Robe Verte), painted in 1866, brought him recognition, and was one of many works featuring his future wife, Camille Doncieux; she was the model for the figures in The Women in the Garden of the following year, as well as for On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, 1868, pictured here. Camille Doncieux (1847 &ndash 5 September 1879) was the first wife of Claude Monet. Shortly thereafter Doncieux became pregnant and gave birth to their first child, Jean. Jean Monet can mean Jean Monet (Canadian writer Jean Monet (son of Claude Monet, a frequent subject of paintings by his father In 1868, due to financial reasons, Monet attempted suicide by throwing himself into the Seine. The Seine (sɛn in French) is a slow flowing major River and commercial waterway within the regions of Île-de-France and Haute-Normandie

Franco-Prussian War, Impressionism, and Argenteuil

Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) (1872/1873). Impression Sunrise (Impression soleil levant is a painting by Claude Monet, for which the Impressionist movement was named

After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War (July 19, 1870), Monet took refuge in England in September 1870. The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War ( 19 July, 1870 — 10 May, 1871 Events 711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic. Year 1870 ( MDCCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland ^[5] While there, he studied the works of John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner, both of whose landscapes would serve to inspire Monet's innovations in the study of color. John Constable ( 11 June 1776 &ndash 31 March 1837 Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 &ndash 19 December 1851 was an English Romantic landscape painter, Watercolourist and In the Spring of 1871, Monet's works were refused to be included in the Royal Academy exhibition. ^[6]

In May 1871 he left London to live in Zaandam,^[6] where he made 25 paintings (and the police suspected him of revolutionary activities) ^[7]. Zaandam ( is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is the main city of the municipality of Zaanstad, and received city rights He also had a first visit to nearby Amsterdam. Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west In October or November 1871 he returned to France. Monet lived from December 1871 to 1878 at Argenteuil, a village on the Seine near Paris, and here he painted some of his best known works. Argenteuil is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. In 1874, he briefly returned to Holland. ^[8]

In 1872 (or 1873), he painted Impression, Sunrise (Impression: soleil levant) depicting a Le Havre landscape. Impression Sunrise (Impression soleil levant is a painting by Claude Monet, for which the Impressionist movement was named Le Havre is a city in the northwest region of France situated on the right bank of the mouth of the Seine River as it outlets into the Bay of the Seine It hung in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and is now displayed in the Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris. Musée Marmottan-Monet is located at 2 rue Louis Boilly in the XVIe arrondissement of Paris. From the painting's title, art critic Louis Leroy coined the term "Impressionism", which he intended as disparagement but which the Impressionists appropriated for themselves. For the baseball player see Louis Leroy. ---- Louis Leroy was a French 19th century engraver painter and successful playwright Impressionism was a 19th-century Art movement that began as a loose association of Paris -based Artists exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s ^[9]

Monet and Camille Doncieux had married just before the war (June 28, 1870) ^[6] and, after their excursion to London and Zaandam, they had moved into a house in Argenteuil near the Seine River in December 1871. Camille Doncieux (1847 &ndash 5 September 1879) was the first wife of Claude Monet. Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. Year 1870 ( MDCCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Argenteuil is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. The Seine (sɛn in French) is a slow flowing major River and commercial waterway within the regions of Île-de-France and Haute-Normandie She became ill in 1876. They had a second son, Michel, on March 17, 1878, (Jean was born in 1867). Events 45 BC - In his last victory Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger Year 1878 ( MDCCCLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Jean Monet can mean Jean Monet (Canadian writer Jean Monet (son of Claude Monet, a frequent subject of paintings by his father This second child weakened her already fading health. In that same year, he moved to the village of Vétheuil. Vétheuil is a small commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. At the age of thirty-two, Madame Monet died on 5 September 1879 of tuberculosis; Monet painted her on her death bed. Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. Year 1879 ( MDCCCLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or T u' b' erculosis Bacillus --> is a common ^{[10] [11]}

Gallery of early paintings

The Woman in the Green Dress, Camille Doncieux, 1866, Kunsthalle Bremen. Camille Doncieux (1847 &ndash 5 September 1879) was the first wife of Claude Monet. The Kunsthalle Bremen is an art museum in the Hanseatic City Bremen, Germany. Bremen (ˈbʁeːmən is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany (official name Stadtgemeinde Bremen / City Municipality of Bremen	Le dejeuner sur l'herbe, 1865-1866, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Russian Музей изобразительных искусств им	Le dejeuner sur lherbe, (right section), with Gustave Courbet, 1865-1866, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. For the French Admiral see Admiral Courbet (1828-1885 Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( 10 June 1819 &ndash Year 1865 ( MDCCCLXV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1866 ( MDCCCLXVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Musée d'Orsay is a Museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station the Gare Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city	Flowering Garden at Sainte-Adresse, 1866, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Year 1866 ( MDCCCLXVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Musée d'Orsay is a Museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station the Gare	Woman in a Garden, 1867, Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Jardin à Sainte-Adresse, 1867, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City	Seine Basin with Argenteuil, 1872, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. The State Hermitage Museum (Государственный Эрмитаж Gosudarstvennyj Èrmitaž) in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest Saint Petersburg ( tr: Sankt-Peterburg,) is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile in New York City, The City of New York The Musée d'Orsay is a Museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station the Gare	Jean Monet on his Hobby Horse, 1872, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile in New York City,	The Artist's House at Argenteuil, 1873, The Art Institute of Chicago	Poppies Blooming, 1873, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. The Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's premier Fine art museums The Musée d'Orsay is a Museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station the Gare
Madame Monet in a Japanese Costume, 1875, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston	Woman with a Parasol, (Camille and Jean Monet), 1875, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.	Camille Monet at Work, 1875, Barnes Foundation, Merion, PA	Argenteuil, 1875, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States attracting over one million visitors a year This article is about the National Gallery of the United States for other National Galleries see National Gallery. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D The Barnes Foundation is an educational art institution in Lower Merion Township, a suburb of Philadelphia Pennsylvania in the United States. Merion is a community in Pennsylvania state of the United States. The Musée de l'Orangerie is an art gallery of Impressionist and post-impressionist paintings located on the Place de la Concorde in Paris.	Saint Lazare Train Station, Paris, 1877, The Art Institute of Chicago
Rue Montorgueil, 1878, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. The Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's premier Fine art museums The Musée d'Orsay is a Museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station the Gare	Camille Monet, on her deathbed, 1879, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. The Musée d'Orsay is a Museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station the Gare	Vétheuil in the Fog, 1879, Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris. Musée Marmottan-Monet is located at 2 rue Louis Boilly in the XVIe arrondissement of Paris.	Street near Vétheuil in Winter, 1879	Lavacourt: Sunshine and Snow, 1879-1880 National Gallery, London

Later life

Étienne Clémentel, Claude Monet, in his garden, c. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. 1917

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. Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. Year 1879 ( MDCCCLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar 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. Camille Doncieux (1847 &ndash 5 September 1879) was the first wife of Claude Monet. Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or T u' b' erculosis Bacillus --> is a common 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 Hoschedé, (1837-1891), a wealthy department store owner and patron of the arts. Ernest Hoschedé (died 1891 was a department store magnate in Paris. Both families then shared a house in Vétheuil during the summer. Vétheuil is a small commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. After her husband (Ernest Hoschedé) was bankrupted, and left in 1878 for Belgium, in September 1879, and while Monet continued to live in the house in Vétheuil; Alice Hoschedé helped Monet to raise his two sons, Jean and Michel, by taking them to Paris to live alongside her own six children. Ernest Hoschedé (died 1891 was a department store magnate in Paris. The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those Alice Raingo Hoschedé Monet (died 1911 was the wife of department store magnate and art collector Ernest Hoschedé and later the Impressionist painter Claude Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city ^[12] They were Blanche, Germaine, Suzanne, Marthe, Jean-Pierre, and Jacques. In the spring of 1880 Alice Hoschedé and all the children left Paris and rejoined Monet still living in the house in Vétheuil. ^[13] In 1881 all of them moved to Poissy which Monet hated. Poissy is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 23 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. Year 1883 ( MDCCCLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Giverny (ʒivɛʀˈni is a commune of the Eure department in northern France. Eure is a department in the north of France named after the Eure River. Haute-Normandie ( Upper Normandy) is one of the 26 regions of France. Following the death of her estranged husband, Alice Hoschedé married Claude Monet in 1892. ^[4]

Giverny

At the beginning of May 1883, Monet and his large family rented a house and two acres from a local landowner. The house was situated near the main road between the towns of Vernon and Gasny at Giverny. Vernon is a commune in the department of Eure in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France. Giverny (ʒivɛʀˈni is a commune of the Eure department in northern France. There was a barn that doubled as a painting studio, orchards and a small garden. The house was close enough to the local schools for the children to attend and the surrounding landscape offered an endless array of suitable motifs for Monet's work. The family worked and built up the gardens and Monet's fortunes began to change for the better as his dealer Paul Durand-Ruel had increasing success in selling his paintings. Paul Durand-Ruel (1831 &ndash 1922 was a French Art dealer who is associated with the Impressionists. By November 1890 Monet was prosperous enough to buy the house, the surrounding buildings and the land for his gardens. Within a few years by 1899 Monet built a greenhouse and a second studio, a spacious building, well lit with skylights. Beginning in the 1880s and 1890s, through the end of his life in 1926, Monet worked on "series" paintings, in which a subject was depicted in varying light and weather conditions. His first series exhibited as such was of Haystacks, painted from different points of view and at different times of the day. Haystacks is the title of a series of impressionist Paintings by Claude Monet. Fifteen of the paintings were exhibited at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in 1891. Paul Durand-Ruel (1831 &ndash 1922 was a French Art dealer who is associated with the Impressionists. He later produced several series of paintings including: Rouen Cathedral, Poplars, the Houses of Parliament, Mornings on the Seine, and the Water Lilies that were painted on his property at Giverny. Rouen Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen is a Gothic Cathedral in Rouen, in northwestern France. Populus is a genus of between 25–35 species of Flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere. The Seine (sɛn in French) is a slow flowing major River and commercial waterway within the regions of Île-de-France and Haute-Normandie Water Lilies (or Nympheas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926

Monet was exceptionally fond of painting controlled nature: his own gardens in Giverny, with its water lilies, pond, and bridge. Nymphaeaceae is a family of Flowering plants Members of this family are commonly called water lilies and live in freshwater areas in temperate and tropical climates He also painted up and down the banks of the Seine. The Seine (sɛn in French) is a slow flowing major River and commercial waterway within the regions of Île-de-France and Haute-Normandie

Between 1883 and 1908, Monet traveled to the Mediterranean, where he painted landmarks, landscapes, and seascapes, such as Bordighera. He painted an important series of paintings in Venice, Italy, and in London he painted two important series — views of Parliament and views of Charing Cross Bridge. Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. His second wife Alice died in 1911 and his oldest son Jean, who had married Alice's daughter Blanche, Monet's particular favourite, died in 1914. ^[4] After his wife died, Blanche looked after and cared for him. It was during this time that Monet began to develop the first signs of cataracts. A cataract is a clouding that develops in the crystalline lens of the Eye or in its envelope varying in degree from slight to complete opacity ^[14]

During World War I, in which his younger son Michel served and his friend and admirer Clemenceau led the French nation, Monet painted a series of Weeping Willow trees as homage to the French fallen soldiers. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Georges Benjamin Clemenceau ( Mouilleron-en-Pareds ( Vendée) 28 September 1841 24 November 1929 was a French statesman physician and Journalist Salix babylonica ( Peking Willow or Babylon Willow) is a species of Willow native to dry areas of northern China, but cultivated This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Cataracts formed on Monet's eyes, for which he underwent two surgeries in 1923. The paintings done while the cataracts affected his vision have a general reddish tone, which is characteristic of the vision of cataract victims. It may also be that after surgery he was able to see certain ultraviolet wavelengths of light that are normally excluded by the lens of the eye, this may have had an effect on the colors he perceived. Ultraviolet ( UV) light is Electromagnetic radiation with a Wavelength shorter than that of Visible light, but longer than X-rays After his operations he even repainted some of these paintings, with bluer water lilies than before the operation. ^[15]

Gallery of later paintings

Hut of the Douaniers with Varengeville, 1882, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam	The Cliffs at Etretat, 1885, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts	Still-Life with Anemones, 1885	The Port Coton „Pyramids, 1886	Haystacks, (sunset), 1890-1891, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Poplars, (autumn), 1891, Philadelphia Museum of Art	Rouen Cathedral, Facade (sunset), 1892-1894, Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris	Branch of the Seine near Giverny, 1897	Bridge over a Pool of Water Lilies, 1899, Metropolitan Museum of Art	Pappeln on the Epte, 1900, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
Garden Path, 1902	Houses of Parliament, London, c. Year 1882 ( MDCCCLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is the main art museum in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Rotterdam (pronounced) is the 2nd-largest City by population in the Netherlands, located in the province of The Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, usually referred to simply as "The Clark" is an art museum with a large and varied collection located in Williamstown Williamstown is a town in Berkshire County, in the northwest corner of Massachusetts. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Haystacks is the title of a series of impressionist Paintings by Claude Monet. Year 1890 ( MDCCCXC) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1891 ( MDCCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States attracting over one million visitors a year The Philadelphia Museum of Art, located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia 's Fairmount Park, was established in 1876 Claude Monet painted a series of paintings of the Rouen Cathedral. Year 1892 ( MDCCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Year 1894 ( MDCCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Musée Marmottan-Monet is located at 2 rue Louis Boilly in the XVIe arrondissement of Paris. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile in New York City, Year 1900 ( MCM) was an exceptional Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar The National Gallery of Scotland, in Edinburgh, is the national Art gallery of Scotland. Edinburgh ( ˈɛdɪnb(ərə Dùn Èideann) is the Capital of Scotland and is its second largest city after Glasgow. Claude Monet painted a series of paintings of the Palace of Westminster, home of the British Parliament, during his stay in London. 1904, Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris	Water Lilies, 1907, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo	Palace From Mula, Venice, 1908, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.	Water Lilies, 1914-1917, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Nympheas, c. Year 1904 ( MCMIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting on Musée Marmottan-Monet is located at 2 rue Louis Boilly in the XVIe arrondissement of Paris. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Water Lilies (or Nympheas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926 officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. Year 1908 ( MCMVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year This article is about the National Gallery of the United States for other National Galleries see National Gallery. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Water Lilies (or Nympheas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926 The Toledo Museum of Art is an internationally known art museum located in the Old West End neighborhood of Toledo Ohio, United States. This article is about the city in Ohio, USA. For Toledo Spain, see that article Ohio ( is a Midwestern state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads Water Lilies (or Nympheas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926 1916, Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris	Water Lilies, 1916, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo	Water-Lily Pond and Weeping Willow, 1916-1919	Weeping Willow, 1918-1919, Kimball Art Museum, Fort Worth	Sea-Roses (Yellow Nirwana), 1920, The National Gallery, London

Death

Water Lilies, 1920-1926, Musée de l'Orangerie

Monet, right, in his garden at Vernon, 1922. Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Musée Marmottan-Monet is located at 2 rue Louis Boilly in the XVIe arrondissement of Paris. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Water Lilies (or Nympheas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926 The is the premier public Art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. The Kimbell Art Museum is situated in the Cultural District of Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas and the seventeenth-largest city in the United States. London's National Gallery, founded in 1824 houses a rich collection of over 2300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Water Lilies (or Nympheas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926 The Musée de l'Orangerie is an art gallery of Impressionist and post-impressionist paintings located on the Place de la Concorde in Paris.

Monet died of lung cancer on December 5, 1926 at the age of 86 and is buried in the Giverny church cemetery. Events 63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Giverny (ʒivɛʀˈni is a commune of the Eure department in northern France. ^[16] Monet had insisted that the occasion be simple; thus about fifty people attended the ceremony. ^[17]

His famous home and garden with its waterlily pond were bequeathed by his heirs to the French Academy of Fine Arts (part of the Institut de France) in 1966. The Institut de France (French Institute is a French Learned society, grouping five académies, the most famous of which is probably the Académie Through the Fondation Claude Monet, the home and gardens were opened for visit in 1980, following refurbishment. ^[18] In addition to souvenirs of Monet and other objects of his life, the home contains his collection of Japanese woodcut prints. "pictures of the floating world" is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or Woodcuts) and Paintings produced between the 17th The home is one of the two main attractions of Giverny, which hosts tourists from all over the world. Giverny (ʒivɛʀˈni is a commune of the Eure department in northern France.

Posthumous sales

In 2004, London, the Parliament, Effects of Sun in the Fog (Londres, le Parlement, trouée de soleil dans le brouillard) (1904), sold for U.S. $20. Claude Monet painted a series of paintings of the Palace of Westminster, home of the British Parliament, during his stay in London. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been 1 million. ^[19] In 2006, the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society published a paper providing evidence that these were painted in situ at St Thomas' Hospital over the river Thames. Proceedings of the Royal Society is the parent title of two Scientific journals published by the Royal Society. St Thomas' Hospital is a large NHS Hospital in Lambeth, London, England. The Thames ( is a major River flowing through southern England. ^[20]

Falaises près de Dieppe (Cliffs near Dieppe) has been stolen on two separate occasions. Once in 1998 (in which the museum's curator was convicted of the theft and jailed for five years along with two accomplices) and most recently in August 2007. It has yet to be recovered. ^[21]

Monet's Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil, an 1873 painting of a railway bridge spanning the Seine near Paris was bought by an anonymous telephone bidder for a record $ 41. A bridge is a Structure built to span a Gorge, Valley, Road, railroad track, River, Body of water The Seine (sɛn in French) is a slow flowing major River and commercial waterway within the regions of Île-de-France and Haute-Normandie Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city 4 million at Christie's auction in New York on May 6, 2008. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Events 1527 - Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common The previous record for his painting stood at $ 36. 5 million. ^[22]

See also

• History of painting
• Western painting
• Étretat

References

Cited

General

External links

• Paintings by Claude Monet
• Hecht Museum
• Claude Monet Images
• Monet page at Webmuseum
• Monet images at Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• Claude Monet by himself
• Life of Monet a timeline of Monet's life
• Claude Monet at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
• Will the real Monet please stand up?
• Monet gallery
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• Monet at Cincinnati Museum of Art
• Claude Monet at Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut
• The Unknown Monet Exhibition held at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute June 23-September 16, 2007
• Details about Claude Monet's cataract
• Organization Claude Monet