Monet
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Biography
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Important People
Important People in Monet's Life
Louise-Justine Aubre Monet
Monet’s mother. She was a singer and the two of them were very close. He was upset when she passed away. It could be that her love of art helped push him into art himself.
Marie-Jeanne Lecadre
Monet’s aunt. She financed his art education in Paris after buying him out of the army.
Camille Doncieux (1847-1879)
Monet’s first wife. She was originally his model and mistress, but in 1867 she bore him a son. They were married 3 years later, but his family would not accept her. She died one year after giving birth to another baby boy.
Alice Hoschedé
Monet’s second wife. They may have been having an affair before Camille was dead. He painted her picture occasionally. They had no children together, but he gained step children by her.
Blanche Hoschedé Monet
Monet’s step-daughter and daughter-in-law. She took care of Monet after Jean and Alice died, abandoning her activities as an artist.
Jean Monet
Monet’s first son. Jean Monet was frequently a subject of his father’s paintings. He eventually married his father’s favorite of Alice Hoschedé’s daughters.
Michel Monet
Monet’s second son. Fought in World War I.
Pierre-Auguest Renoir
Friend from the studio of Charles Gleyre. Worked with Monet on the painting of La Grenouillére. They both discovered at the same time that shadows are neither black nor brown, but are colored by their surroundings.
Frédéric Bazille
Friend from the studio of Charles Gleyre. He often bailed Monet out of financial situations (giving him space in his studio and materials to paint with). He fought and died in the Franco-Prussian War.
Alfred Sisley
Friend from the studio of Charles Gleyre.
Paul Durand-Ruel
Monet’s dealer who held exhibitions of Impressionism and other works at his galleries. He even exhibited at New York, bringing the Impressionist movement to the U.S.
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Other Great Masters
Waterlilies at Giverny
Sketch of Woman and Umbrella
Poppies
Women in the Garden
The Artist's Garden at Vetheuil with Boy
"It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them." Claude Monet Quotes