Claude Monet was a famous French impressionist painter born in 1840 in Paris. Some of his most notable works include paintings from his series on Rouen Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament in London, and water lilies. Monet helped found impressionism and held the first impressionist exhibition in 1874, where his painting Impression, Sunrise gave the movement its name. He spent many years painting his water lily garden in Giverny, France until his death in 1926.

1. Claude Monet
Born Oscar-Claude Monet
14 November 1840
Paris, France
Died 5 December 1926(aged 86)
Giverny, France
Nationality French
Known for Painter
Notable work(s) Impression,
Sunrise
Rouen Cathedral series
London Parliament series
Water Lilies
Haystacks
Poplars
Movement Impressionism

2. First "Impressionist"
exhibition
Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), 1872; the painting
that gave its name to the style.Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

3. Impressionism
Madame Monet in a Japanese
kimono, 1875, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston

4. Paintings 1858–1872
Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur, 1865, Norton Simon
Foundation, Pasadena, CA; indicates the influence of Dutch
maritime painting

5. Woman in a Garden, 1867,Hermitage, St. Petersburg; a study in the effect
of sunlight and shadow on colour

6. Jardin à Sainte-Adresse, 1867,Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

7. La Grenouillére 1869, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; a small
plein-air painting created with broad strokes of intense colour

8. Paintings 1873–1879
Camille Monet on a Garden Bench, 1873, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York

9. Pierre-Auguste
Renoir, Portrait of Claude
Monet, 1875, Musée d'Orsay

10. Flowers on the riverbank at Argenteuil, 1877, Pola Museum of Art, Japan

11. Monet's garden
Water Lilies, c. 1915, Neue Pinakothek, Munich

12. Water Lilies
and the
Japanese
bridge, 1897–
99, Princeton
University Art
Museum