Claude Monet

Born in Paris, France, Monet grew up in Le Havre. Monet gained local renown as a caricaturist and was introduced to the plein-air style by Dutch watercolorist Johan Bartold Jongkind. Jongkind taught Monet not to blur the freshness of the initial impression, but to look at nature and paint street from the motif. In 1859, he moved to Paris where he often worked in the forest of Fontainebleau beside Renoir, paying attention to the infinite variation of light. In 1883 Monet rented a house at Giverny near Vernon, where he created some of his greatest works. Monet had less of a concern for his subjects, than for the way light effected them and is perhaps the most well known Impressionist painter. His popular series of waterlily paintings grew in abstraction, with the late works barely resembling flowers. Spending the rest of his days in his house, he had no ambition for leadership, he lived in solitude, with a desire only to learn and paint. Monet died in Giverny, France in 1926.

Claude Monet Images:
Old Fort at Antibes
Sunflowers
Nympheas, 1908
Highway Bridge At Argenteuil
Poppyfield Near Giverny
Camille At The Window, Argenteuil
Luncheon in the Garden
Field In Spring
Corn Poppies
Field of Poppies
Cap Martin, near Menton
Cap D’Antibes, Mistral
Rue de la Bavolle, Honfleur
Claude Monet Triptych
Wild Poppies
Le Bassin aux Nympheas: Harmonie Rose
Bazille and Camille
White and Purple Water Lilies,1918
Bridge at Argenteuil
Bordighera
The Bassin at Argenteuil, 1874
Argenteuil
La Gare Saint-Lazare
Meadow with Poplars
Fleurs A Vetheuil
Waterlilies
Poplars on the Epte
The Garden at Vetheuil
Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge
Chrysanthemums, 1878
Les Barques,Regates A Argenteuil
Morning on the Seine,near Giverny
The Magpie, 1869
The Red Boats
Purple Poppies
Flower Beds at Vetheuil
Waterloo Bridge
Cliff Walk at Pourville
Irises, 1914 - 17
Hotel Des Roches,Trouville
Bassin Auz Nympheas
Harmonie Rose
The Thames Below Westminster
Regatta at Argenteuil
Palazzo da Mula - Venice
Fields in Spring
Les Nympheas, Reflets Verts
Regatta In Argenteuil
Poppies Near Argenteuil
Nympheas, Water Landscape, 1907
London Houses of Parliment
Vetheuil in Summer
La Pie, Effet De Neige, Environs De Honfleur
The Artist’s Garden - Argenteuil
Les Iris Mauves
Jardins de Bordighera
Beach At St. Adresse
Sandvicken, Norway
Japanese Bridge
Water Lilies, 1908
Pool with Waterlilies, 1904
Argenteuil 1875
Waterlilies, 1903
L’Eglise San Giorgio Maggiore
Field of Poppies, Giverny
The Seine At Bougival
Beach At Trouville
Nympheas
Le Dejeuner
Artist’s Garden At Argenteuil
Waterlillies at Giverny
The Seine River
Champ D’Iris Jaunes A’ Giverny
Asters, 1880
The Boats, Regatta at Argenteuil
Spring In Giverny,1890
The Artist’s Garden at Giverny
The Bridge At Argenteuil
Coquelicots
Across the Meadow
La Promenade (Argenteuil)
Madame Monet and Her Son
Water Lilies II, 1920
The Thames at Charing Cross
Vetheuil
The Seine at Giverny, Morning Mists, 1897
Une Allee du Jardin de Monet, Giverny
Bathers at La Grenouillere
Woman with Parasol
The Water Lily Pond, 1918
Water Lily Pond - Pink Harmony
Poppy Field in a Hollow
Chemin Dans Les Bles A Pourville
Massif de Chrysanthemes
San Giorgio Maggiore-Soleil Couchant
Le Jardin A Giverny
Meadow at Giverny
Village with Mountains & Agave Plant
Water Lily Pond & Bridge
The Artist’s Garden at Argenteuil
Water Lilies, ca.1916 - 20
Tulip Fields at Sassenheim, Near Leiden
Monet’s Garden (Detail)
Rouen Cathedral, Evening 1894
The Artist’s Garden at Vetheuil
Parisians Enjoying Parc Monceau
Beach at Sainte-Adresse
The Artist's Garden at Vetheuil
Nympheas Effet du Soir
Road at la Cavee, Pourville
Camille Monet and a Child in the Artist’s Garden in Argenteuil
Le Pont Japonais - Bassin aux Nympheas
The Seine at Giverny, Morning Mist
Les Villas a’ Bordighera
Water Lilies III, 1920
Waterlilies (Detail)
Impression brouillard
La Jettee Du Harvre
Antibes, View with Single Tree
Argenteuil,c.1875
Footpath in the Garden
The Luncheon
The Parc Monceau
Valley Of The Creuse, 1889
Champ de Tulips en Hollande
Madame Monet in Her Garden at Giverny
Terrace at Saint-Adresse
Hunting, The Shoot