Claude Monet A Famous French Artist

“I can only draw what I see” - Claude Monet

Childhood And Early Works Was born on 14 November 1840 1851: entered Le Havre school of the arts 1856: met fellow artist Eugène Boudin

Childhood And Early Works

First Impressionist Paintings late 1860s: rejection from the conservative Académie des Beaux-Arts 1873: Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers 1874:  their first exhibition Portrait of Claude Monet (1867)

First Impressionist Paintings Impression, Sunrise (1872), depicting a Le Havre port landscape. the painting that gave its name to the style of “impressionism”

Later Impressionism 1876: Camille Monet became ill Monet made a study in oils of his dead wife After her death, Monet began to create some of his best paintings of the 19th century. 

Later Impressionism Study of a Figure Outdoors: Woman with a Parasol, facing left, 1886 his second wife's daughter Suzanne Monet with a parasol in a meadow at Giverny

Later Impressionism Rouen Cathedral at sunset, 1893 The paintings in the series each capture the facade of the Rouen Cathedral at different times of the day and year

Later Impressionism Water Lilies (or Nymphéas), c. 1915 Water Lilies  is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings

Last Years After the death of his second wife Monet began to develop the first signs of cataracts The surgeries had an effect on the colours he perceived Monet died of lung cancer on 5 December 1926

Water-Lily Pond and Weeping Willow Last Years House Among the Roses (1917-1919) Water-Lily Pond and Weeping Willow (1916–1919) Weeping Willow (1918–1919)

Legacy Monet's extraordinarily long life and large artistic output befit the enormity of his contemporary popularity. Impressionism, for which he is a pillar, continues to be one of the most popular artistic movement.

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