1. Claude
Monet
1840-19
26

2. Monet was a French painter and the leader
of Impressionist Style.
Impression:
Sunshine 1872

3. Claude Monet was born on 14
November 1840 in Paris.He was the
second son of Claude Adolphe Monet
and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet.
His father wanted him to go into the
family grocery business, but Monet
wanted
to become an artist.
His mother was a singer.
On the first of April 1851,
Monet entered Le Havre
secondary school of the
arts. Locals knew him well
for his charcoal
caricatures, which he
would sell for ten to

4. 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.
Bouding was a famous marine painter.
When Monet traveled to Paris to visit the
Louvre, he witnessed painters copying
from the old masters. Having brought his
paints and other tools with him, he would
instead go and sit by a window and paint
what he saw.

5. Monet died of lung cancer on 5 December 1926 at
the age of 86 and is buried in the Giverny church
cemetery.
His famous home, garden and water lily pond were
bequeathed by his son Michel, his only heir, to the
French Academy of Fine Arts (part of the Institute
de France) in 1966.
Through the Foundation Claude Monet, the house
and gardens were opened for visit in 1980,
following restoration. In addition to souvenirs of
Monet and other objects of his life, the house
contains his collection of Japanese woodcut prints.
The house is one of the two main attractions of
Giverny, which hosts tourists from all over the
world.

6. Monet’s Charcoal
Caricatures

7. The Woman
in the Green
Dress 1866
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

8. Women in the
Garden
Camille was the
model for the figures
in Women in the
Garden of the
following year, as
well as for On the
Bank of the Seine,
Bennecourt, 1868,
pictured here.
Shortly thereafter,
Camille became
pregnant and gave
birth to their first
child, Jean.

9. On the Bank of the Seine,
Bennecourt, 1868

10. Camille Monet on Her
Deathbed
1879
Monet and Camille
Doncieux had married just
before the war (28 June
1870)and, after their
excursion to London and
Zaandam, they had moved
to Argenteuil, in December
1871. It was during this
time that Monet painted
various works of modern
life. Camille became ill in
1876. They had a second
son, Michel, on 17 March
1878, (Jean was born in
1867). This second child
weakened her already
fading health. In that same
year, he moved to the
village of Vétheuil. On 5
September 1879, Camille

11. Monet’s Home at Giverny and
Some of His Paintings
At the beginning of May 1883, Monet and his large family rented a house
and 2 acres (8,100 m2) from a local landowner. The house was situated
near the main road between the towns of Vernon and Gasny at Giverny.
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.

12. Japanese Bridge

13. Monet was
exceptionally
fond of
painting
controlled
nature: his
own gardens
in Giverny,
with its water
lilies, pond,
and bridge.

14. Japanese Bridge

15. Gardens at Giverny

16. Water
lilies

17. Le Jardin a
Giverny