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MONET, CLAUDE (184o- )

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MONET, See also:CLAUDE (184o- ) , See also:French painter, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 14th of See also:November 1840. His youth was passed at See also:Havre, where his See also:father had settled in 1845. Until he was fifteen years old he led a somewhat irregular See also:life, learning little at school, and spending all his See also: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, a See also:clever See also:sea-painter, under whose guidance he learned to love and to understand nature., At the See also:age of twenty he became a soldier, and spent two years of his military time with the See also:regiment of the Chasseurs d'Afrique in the See also:desert. Falling See also:ill with See also:fever, he was sent See also:home, and entered the studio of See also:Gleyre. This classical painter tried in vain to keep him to conventional See also:art and away from truth and nature, and Monet See also:left his studio, where he had become acquainted with two other " impressionistic " painters—See also:Sisley and See also:Renoir. At that time he also knew See also:Manet (q.v.), and in 1869 he joined the See also:group of Cezanne, See also:Degas, Duranty, Sisley, and became a plein See also:air painter.. During the See also:war of 187o he withdrew to See also:England, and on his return was introduced by See also:Daubigny to a dealer, M. See also:Durand-Ruel, in whose galleries almost all his See also:works have been exhibited. In 1872 he exhibited views of See also:Argenteuil, near Paris; in 1894 a See also:series entitled " Cathedrals," showing the See also:cathedral of See also:Rouen under different See also:lights. He afterwards painted views of Vetheuil (1875, see See also:Plate), Pourville and cliffs of See also:Etretat (188,), of See also:Bordighera (1886), of the See also:Creuse. (1889), Le Me See also:ales (1891), and some further views of cathedrals (1894).

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December 1900 he exhibited some pictures called " Le Bassin See also:des Nympheas," and was engaged at the beginning of 1901 in See also:painting views of See also:London. Several of Monet's paintings, bequeathed by M. Caillebotte, are in the Luxembourg Museum, Paris.

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