Claude Monet was a famous French painter and founder of the impressionist movement. He was born in 1840 in Paris, France and died in 1926. Monet came from a family of grocers in Le Havre, France, where he showed an early talent for caricature drawing. He was influenced by landscape painter Eugène Boudin who taught him to paint outdoors. Though he started military service, Monet contracted typhoid fever and was able to pursue art by attending art school instead. He is renowned for his paintings of water lilies and scenes of nature.

1. Claude Monet
Born: November 14,1840 Paris, France
Died: December 5, 1926. Monet was
a founder of French impressionist
painting

2. Life Circumstances
.His parents,Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée
Monet was a grocer and singer. In 1845 the family moved
to Le Havre, France, where Monet's father and uncle ran a
business selling supplies for ships.
.At fifteen Claude Monet was a popular caricaturist (one
who makes exaggerated portraits of people).

3. Life circumstances
• Eugène Boudin, a landscape painter who became a great influence on the
young artist; introduced Monet to outdoor painting, an activity that soon
became his life's work. He thought him how to use oil paints and
techniques.
• He worked at the free Académie Suisse in Paris, and he frequented the
Brasserie des Martyrs, a gathering place for Gustave Courbet but his
worked was interrupted by military affairs in Algeria for two years.
• Monet was signed for a seven year commitment but caught typhoid fever
and his aunt helped him get out and the army agreed but Monet had to
complete an art course and art school.

4. Interesting Facts
• This wonderful artist was baptized in NotreDame-de-Lorette, the local parish church.
• Monet was baptized as Oscar-Claude, but his
parents called him simply Oscar. Strange that
we all call him Claude.
• At the young age of thirty-two, Monet’s wife,
Camille Monet, died of tuberculosis. Even
while on her deathbed, Monet took the
opportunity to paint his wife.

5. Interesting Facts
• In 1892, Claude Monet married Alice
Hoschedé
• Alice helped him raise his two kids along with
her six children she brought them to Paris
with her kids.
• His home, garden and waterlily pond were
bequeathed by his son Michel, his only heir, to
the French Academy of Fine Arts (part of the
Institut de France) in 1966.

6. • On June 24, 2008, Le bassin aux nymphéas
sold at Christie’s for $71,892,376.34. With
Fees it ending up being auctioned for
$80,451,178 .
• Monet was seen as a rebel at school. He
would draw caricatures of his teachers and
friends instead of doing his work.

7. • Camille Doncieux was the model for the
figures in Women in the Garden and On the
Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt which were
painted in 1868.

8. Medium and Style

9. • "I started selling my portraits. Sizing up my customer, I charged ten or
twenty francs a caricature, and it worked like a charm. Within a month my
clientele had doubled. Had I gone on like that I'd be a millionaire today.
Soon I was looked up to in the town, I was 'somebody'. In the shop-window
of the one and only frame maker who could eke out a livelihood in Le
Havre, my caricatures were impudently displayed, five or six abreast, in
beaded frames or behind glass like very fine works of art, and when I saw
troops of bystanders gazing at them in admiration, pointing at them and
crying 'Why, that's so-and-so!', I was just bursting with pride."