See also:

• CLAUDE, JEAN (1619-1687)

CLAUDE See also:

• CLAUDE MONET (184o- )

MONET (184o- )  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French painter, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the 14th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1840 . His youth was passed at See also:

• HAVRE
• HAVRE, LE

Havre, where his See also:

• FATHER

father had settled in 1845 . Until he was fifteen years old he led a somewhat irregular See also:

• LIFE

life, learning little at school, and spending all his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time in decorating his books with drawings and caricatures which gave him notoriety in Havre . At the same time he became acquainted with See also:

• BOUDIN, EUGENE (1824-1898)

Boudin, a See also:

• CLEVER

clever See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-painter, under whose guidance he learned to love and to understand nature., At the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of twenty he became a soldier, and spent two years of his military time with the See also:

• REGIMENT (from Late Latin regimentum, rule, regere, to rule, govern, direct)

regiment of the Chasseurs d'Afrique in the See also:

• DESERT

desert . Falling See also:

• ILL

ill with See also:

• FEVER (Lat. febris, connected with fervere, to burn)

fever, he was sent See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home, and entered the studio of See also:

• GLEYRE, MARC CHARLES GABRIEL (1806-1874)

Gleyre . This classical painter tried in vain to keep him to conventional See also:

• ART

art and away from truth and nature, and See also:

• MONET, CLAUDE (184o- )

Monet See also:

• LEFT

left his studio, where he had become acquainted with two other " impressionistic " painters—See also:

• SISLEY, ALFRED (1840-1899)

Sisley and See also:

• RENOIR, FIRMIN AUGUSTE (1841– )

Renoir . At that time he also knew See also:

• MANET, EDOUARD (1832-1883)

Manet (q.v.), and in 1869 he joined the See also:

• GROUP

group of Cezanne, See also:

• DEGAS, HILAIRE GERMAIN EDGARD (1834- )

Degas, Duranty, Sisley, and became a plein See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air painter .. During the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war of 187o he withdrew to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, and on his return was introduced by See also:

• DAUBIGNY, CHARLES FRANCOIS (1817–1878)

Daubigny to a dealer, M . See also:

• DURAND, ASHER BROWN (1796-1886)
• DURAND, GUILLAUME (d. 1334)
• DURAND, GUILLAUME (GUILLELMUS DURANDUS)

Durand-Ruel, in whose galleries almost all his See also:

• WORKS

works have been exhibited . In 1872 he exhibited views of See also:

• ARGENTEUIL

Argenteuil, near Paris; in 1894 a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series entitled " Cathedrals," showing the See also:

• CATHEDRAL

cathedral of See also:

• ROUEN

Rouen under different See also:

• LIGHTS, CEREMONIAL USE OF

lights . He afterwards painted views of Vetheuil (1875, see See also:

• PLATE

Plate), Pourville and cliffs of See also:

• ETRETAT

Etretat (188,), of See also:

• BORDIGHERA

Bordighera (1886), of the See also:

• CREUSE

Creuse . (1889), Le Me See also:

• ALES (ALEsIus), ALEXANDER (1500-1565)

ales (1891), and some further views of cathedrals (1894) .

In See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1900 he exhibited some pictures called " Le Bassin See also:

• DES

des Nympheas," and was engaged at the beginning of 1901 in See also:

• PAINTING

painting views of See also:

• LONDON

London . Several of Monet's paintings, bequeathed by M . Caillebotte, are in the Luxembourg Museum, Paris .