1. Monet et les Jardins de Giverny By Emma Snow

2.  Birth date: November 14 th, 1840  Birth Place: Paris, France  Birth Name: Oscar-Claude Monet Information

3.  He always wanted to be an artist  His father wanted him to go into the family grocery business  He saw painters copying old paintings  Decided to sit by a window a paint what he saw Information Cont.

4.  Joined the army in 1861  Left the service in 1862; went to art school  Student of Charles Gleyre  Met Renoir, Bazille, and Sisley  They worked on new type of painting; Impressionism  Founders of the French Impressionist painting Information Cont.

5.  First wife was Camille Doncieu  First child, Jean, born in 1867  Second child, Michel, born in 1878  Camille got tuberculosis in 1876  Died in September, 1879 Information Cont.

6.  Moved in with Alice Hoschedé  She helped raise his sons  She had six children of her own  Blanche Hoschedé, Germaine, Suzanne Hoschedé, Marthe, Jean-Pierre, and Jacques  They were married in 1892  Were together until she died in 1911  Jean died in 1914 Information Cont.

7.  Discovered Giverny out of a train window in April, 1883  Rented a house and 2 acres of land  Bought the house and land in 1890  Lived there until his death Information Cont.

8.  Created and planted the gardens that appear in his paintings  The gardens gave him inspiration  Some of his most famous work is of the gardens Information Cont.

9.  Focused on the water lily pond from the 1910s- 1920s  The pond was separate from the house and gardens  Where Monet spent a lot of his time Information Cont.

10.  Last series of paintings were abstract paintings of the lilies  Did not include the sky or horizon in them; just the pond  Focused on a small area of the pond in each painting  Painted on a square canvas without a frame to give it a “limitless” feeling Information Cont.

11.  Later developed cataracts  Had two operations to remove them in 1923  Paintings that he painted while he had the cataracts have a reddish tone Information Cont.

12.  Died of lung cancer December 5 th, 1926  Buried in the Giverny cemetery  Michel, only heir, was left the house, gardens, and water lily pond  He donated them to the French Academy of Fine Arts in 1966  House and gardens were open to the public in 1980 Information Cont.