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Claude Monet

Early Days:

Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the 5th floor of 45 rue Lafitte, in the ninth arrondissement of Paris. He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubree Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians. On 20 May 1841, he was baptized in the local parish church, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, as Oscar Claude. In 1845, his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy. His father wanted him to go into the family grocery business, but Monet wanted to become an artist. His mother was a singer.

Personal Details Name Claude Monet Place of Birth Paris, France Date of Birth 14 November 1840 Date of Death 5 December 1926 (aged 86) Field Painting Nationality French Movement Impressionism Works Impression, Sunrise Rouen Cathedral series London Parliament series Water Lilies Haystacks Poplars

Career:

On the first of April 1851, Monet entered Le Havre secondary school of the arts. Locals knew him well 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. On the beaches of Normandy in about 1856/1857, he met fellow artist Eugène Boudin, who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Boudin taught Monet "en plein air" (outdoor) techniques for painting. Both received the influence of Johan Barthold Jongkind.

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