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Key Dates: Claude Oscar Monet
Monet Bio |
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1840 |
Birth of Claude Oscar Monet on 14th
November, at 45 Rue Lafitte, Paris. |
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1845 |
The Monet family moves to Le Havre. |
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1858 |
Claude Monet meets Eugène Boudin who
takes him to paint out of doors for the first time. |
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1859 |
Monet comes to Paris and enrolls in
the Swiss Academy. |
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1860 |
Monet meets Pissarro and Courbet. |
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1863 |
Monet discovers Manet's and paints "en
plein air" in the Fontainebleau forest, and with
Bazille in Chailly |
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1865 |
Monet's paintings are submitted for
the first time to the official Salon. Camille Doncieux
his lady friend and Bazille pose for Le Dejeuner
sur l'herbe (the Picnic). |
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1867 |
Birth of his first son Jean Monet
while Claude Monet stays at his parents home.
September Monet joins Bazille and Renoir in their
studio at 20 rue Visconti. |
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1870 |
Monet marries Camille, Courbet is his
witness. They take refuge in London when the
Franco-Prussian War begins. |
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1871 |
Monet meets Durand-Ruel in London with
Pissarro and Daubigny. Death of his father. Monet
settles at Argenteuil after visiting the Netherlands. |
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1874 |
Monet exhibits "Impression Sunrise" at
the first Impressionist exhibition in the studio of
Nadar on the 14th April . |
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1887 |
Monet exhibits in New-York thanks to
Durand-Ruel. |
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1890 |
Monet purchases the house in Giverny
and begins the digging for the nympheas basin. Monet
campaigns to buy Manet's Olympia for the Nation to aid
his widow. |
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1900
1908 |
Monet paints several views of the
Japanese bridge. He takes several trips to London and
paints views of the Thames.
Houses of Parliament
plus my
painted version
Monet in Venice 1908
Le Palaisa de Mula, Venice,
by Douglas Carpenter |
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1916 - 1926 |
Claude Monet works on twelve large
canvas, The Water Lilies.
Following the signing of the Armistice, Monet offers
to donate them to France. These paintings will be
installed in an architectural space designed
specifically for them at the museum of the Orangerie
in Paris. |
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1923 |
Monet is nearly blind. He has an
operation for the cataract in one eye. His sight
improves. |
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1926 |
In February Monet is still painting.
But he suffers from lung cancer. He dies on December
5th. He is buried in a simple ceremony at Giverny. |
