Bain à la Grenouillère (1869) Painting by Claude Monet

Claude Monet was born in Paris in 1840. He studied drawing at the Collège Communal in Le Havre. Eugène Boudin introduced him to plein-air painting around 1856. Monet moved to Paris in 1859 and enrolled in the Académie Suisse the following year. Camille Pissarro met him there. He served in the Algerian military from 1861 to 1862. Monet returned to Paris after the war and met Gustave Courbet. He entered Charles Gleyers' atelier, where Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Fréderic Bazille were all studying. Édouard Manet became acquainted with him in 1866. Monet painted in Normandy and the Fontainebleau Forest. In 1865, he debuted at the Salon de Paris. Monet moved to London in 1870. He later returned to Argenteuil in France via the Netherlands after the Franco-Prussian War. He took part in the first four Impressionist exhibitions, as well as the seventh, beginning in 1874. He moved to Vétheuil in 1878, and three years later to Giverny. He then traveled to the Netherlands, Italy, and London, as well as Spain, Norway, and Venice. He was represented at the World's Fair in the Exposition centennale de l'art français in 1889. In 1893, he established his water garden in Giverny, and in 1922, he bequeathed his Water Lilies to the French state. In 1926, Monet died in Giverny.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1840
• Artistic domains: Represented by a Gallery,
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists Artists presented by a gallery

The Artist was highlighted in an article in Artmajeur Magazine:

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