Portrait of Claude Monet, 1875, Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
The Man Behind The Art
Picture of Monet in 1860, 1860, Étienne Carjat.
Self-Portrait with a Beret, 1886, Claude Monet.
The Man Behind The Art
Portrait of Claude Monet, 1875, Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Picture of Monet in 1860, 1860, Étienne Carjat.
Self-Portrait with a Beret, 1886, Claude Monet.
Eugene Boudin at Deauville-Trouville, 1896, Musee Eugene Boudin.
Finding His Style
In 1840, Claude Monet was born in Paris, France. After his art education at Académie Suisse, Monet studied with artist Eugene Boudin. During this time, he developed a style based on light and color and learned to paint en plein air (outdoors).
Claude Monet, 1879, Julius C. Schaarwächter.
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
~Claude Monet, ca.1900
Monet struggled with depression and self-doubt, attempting suicide in 1868. In 1870, Monet married Camille Doncieux, one of his models. They suffered financial hardship and in 1879 Camille died. Monet married Alice Hodsche in 1892. They moved to Giverny, a French commune, where Monet created most of his art.
Camille and Jean Monet at the Garden
in Argenteuil, 1873, Claude Monet.
Alice Hodschede in the Garden, 1881,
Claude Monet.
Header Images: "Impression Sunrise", 1872, Claude Monet; "Water Lillies", 1906, Claude Monet; "Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son", 1875, Claude Monet; "The Cliff Walk at Pourville", 1882, Claude Monet.