The Free Encyclopedia. Monet was born to Adolphe and Louise Justine Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians, of 90 Rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, but his family moved in 1845 to Le Havre in Normandy when he was five. He was christened as Oscar-Claude at the church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. On the first of April 1851 Monet entered the Le Havre secondary school of the arts. He first became known locally for his charcoal caricatures, which he would sell for ten to twenty francs. Monet also undertook his first drawing lessons from Jacques-Francois Ochard, a former student of Jacques-Louis David. Now 16 years old, he left school and his widowed, childless aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre took him into her home. When Monet traveled to Paris to visit The Louvre, he witnessed painters copying from the old masters. Monet, having brought his paints and other tools with him, would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw. Monet was in Paris for several years and met several painters who would become friends and fellow impressionists. One of those friends was Йdouard Manet. In June of 1861 Monet joined the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry in Algeria for two years of a seven-year commitment, but upon his contracting typhoid his aunt Madame Lecadre intervened to get him out of the army if he agreed to complete an art course at a university. It is possible that the Dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind, whom Monet knew, may have prompted his aunt on this matter. Disillusioned with the traditional art taught at universities, in 1862 Monet was a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir.Frederic Bazille, and Alfred Sisley. Together they shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plein air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism. Shortly thereafter Doncieux became pregnant and bore their first child.Jean.

In 1868.due to financial reasons.Monet attempted suicide by throwing himself into the Seine.

From 1871 to 1878 Monet lived at Argenteuil, a village on the Seine near Paris, and here were painted some of his best known works. It hung in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and is now displayed in the Musйe Marmottan-Monet.Paris. They had another son.Michel, on March 17.1878.

Madame Monet died of tuberculosis in 1879.

Alice Hoschedй decided to help Monet by bringing up his two children together with her own.

In April 1883 they moved to a house in Giverny.Eure, in Haute-Normandie, where he planted a large garden which he painted for the rest of his life. Monet and Alice Hoschedй married in 1892. His first series exhibited as such was of Haystacks, painted from different points of view and at different times of the day. Fifteen of the paintings were exhibited at the Durand-Ruel in 1891. He later produced series of paintings of Rouen Cathedral, poplars, the Houses of Parliament, mornings on the Seine, and the waterlilies on his property at Giverny. He also painted up and down the banks of the Seine. Between 1883 and 1908.Monet traveled to the Mediterranean, where he painted landmarks, landscapes, and seascapes, such as Bordighera. He painted an important series of paintings in Venice.Italy, and in London he painted two important series - views of Parliament and views of Charing Cross Bridge.

His wife Alice died in 1911 and his son Jean died in 1914.

In the house there are many examples of Japanese woodcut prints on the walls.

a b c Biography for Claude Monet Guggenheim Collection.

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