Claude Monet was born in Paris on November 14, 1840, and grew up in Le Havre. After early success as a caricaturist, he studied landscape painting with Eugène Boudin, whose practice of working outdoors helped shape Monet’s lifelong attention to light and atmosphere.
In the 1860s Monet became closely associated with Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille and Alfred Sisley. His painting Impression, Sunrise gave its name to Impressionism, and his views of Argenteuil, Vétheuil, the Normandy coast and modern Paris established him as one of the movement’s central figures.
Monet settled at Giverny in 1883. The gardens and water-lily pond he created there became the principal subjects of his late paintings, including the monumental Water Lilies decorations. He continued painting despite failing eyesight and died at Giverny on December 5, 1926.
Paul Nadar, Claude Monet, 1899
Albumen print mounted on card, 5.8 × 4.6 in
Private Collection
View from Rouelles, 1858
Oil on canvas, 18.1 × 25.6 in
Marunuma Art Park, Asaka, Japan
Corner of a Studio, 1861
Oil on canvas, 70.9 × 51.2 in
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Walk (Road of the Farm Saint-Siméon), 1864
Oil on canvas, 32.1 × 18.3 in
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
The Seashore at Sainte-Adresse, 1864
Oil on canvas, 15.8 × 28.8 in
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Rue de la Bavole, Honfleur, c 1864
Oil on canvas, 22 × 24 in
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Pointe de la Hève, Sainte-Adresse, 1864
Oil on canvas, 16.1 × 28.7 in
National Gallery, London
Horses at the Pointe de la Hève, 1864
Oil on canvas, 20.3 × 28.7 in
Private Collection
The Chailly Road through the Forest of Fontainebleau, 1865
Oil on canvas, 38.2 × 51.4 in
Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen
Bazille and Camille (Study for “Luncheon on the Grass”), 1865
Oil on canvas, 36.6 × 27.1 in
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Camille/The Woman in the Green Dress, 1866
Oil on canvas, 90.9 × 59.4 in
Kunsthalle Bremen
The Cart: Road under the Snow at Honfleur, c 1867
Oil on canvas, 25.6 × 36.6 in
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Adolphe Monet in the Garden of Le Coteau at Sainte-Adresse, 1867
Oil on canvas, 31.9 × 39 in
Private Collection
Road at Louveciennes, Snow Effect, 1869–1870
Oil on canvas, 21.7 × 25.6 in
Private Collection
The Train in the Country, c 1870
Oil on canvas, 19.7 × 25.7 in
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Argenteuil, c 1872
Oil on canvas, 19.8 × 25.7 in
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Springtime, 1872
Oil on canvas, 19.7 × 25.8 in
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Boulevard des Capucines, 1873–1874
Oil on canvas, 31.6 × 23.8 in
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Monet’s Studio-Boat, 1874
Oil on canvas, 19.8 × 25.8 in
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Church at Vétheuil, 1879
Oil on canvas, 25.8 × 19.9 in
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
The Seine at Vétheuil, 1880
Oil on canvas, 23.8 × 39.5 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Stormy Sea at Étretat, 1883
Oil on canvas, 32 × 39.5 in
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
The Olive Tree Wood in the Moreno Garden, 1884
Oil on canvas, 23.6 × 28.7 in
Private Collection
Road to Giverny in Winter, 1885
Oil on canvas, 23.6 × 31.9 in
Private Collection
The Banks of the River Epte in Springtime, 1885
Oil on canvas, 25.6 × 31.9 in
Private Collection
Rocks at Port-Goulphar, Belle-Île, 1886
Oil on canvas, 26 × 32.2 in
Art Institute of Chicago
Val-Saint-Nicolas, near Dieppe (Morning), 1897
Oil on canvas, 25.5 × 39.4 in
The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
Apple Trees in Blossom at Giverny, 1900
Oil on canvas, 31.9 × 39.4 in
Private Collection
Daylilies, 1914–1917
Oil on canvas, 59.1 × 55.3 in
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Wisteria, 1919–1920
Oil on canvas, 59 × 78.9 in
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin