Tuesday 22 July 2008


Name: Claude Monet
Date of birth:
November 14, 1840
Date of death: December 5, 1926
Background/Biography: Monet was born on November 14, 1840 on the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the ninth arrondissement of Paris. He was the second son of Claude-Adolphe and Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians. On May 20, 1841, he was baptized into the local church parish, 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 store business, but Claude Monet wanted to become an artist. His mother was a singer.
After several difficult months following the death of Camille on
5 September 1879, a grief-stricken Monet (resolving never to be mired in poverty again) began in earnest to create some of his best paintings of the 19th century. During the early 1880s Monet painted several groups of landscapes and seascapes in what he considered to be campaigns to document the French countryside. His extensive campaigns evolved into his series' paintings.
Camille Monet had become ill with tuberculosis in 1876. Pregnant with her second child she gave birth to Michel Monet in March 1878. In 1878 the Monets temporarily moved into the home of Ernest Hoschedé, (1837-1891), a wealthy department store owner and patron of the arts. Both families then shared a house in Vétheuil during the summer. After her husband (Ernest Hoschedé) became bankrupt, and left in 1878 for Belgium, in September 1879, and while Monet continued to live in the house in Vétheuil; Alice Hoschedé helped Monet to raise his two sons, Jean and Michel, by taking them to Paris to live alongside her own six children
Monet died of lung cancer on
December 5, 1926 at the age of 86 and is buried in the Giverny church cemetery.[16] Monet had insisted that the occasion be simple; thus about fifty people attended the ceremony
Title of painting: Jean Monet on his Hobby Horse
What is it about? It’s about a child who is riding on a horse of wood with three wheels, the child has a hat and he is wearing clothes of the 1800’s. Behind them we can see some flowers, trees and grass so we think that behind him there is a forest.

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