Claude Monet

7 works

Claude Monet (1840–1926) was born in Paris, grew up by the sea in Le Havre, and from 1883 lived and painted at Giverny in Normandy.

He was the guiding spirit of Impressionism, which took its name from his painting Impression, Sunrise, and he is beloved for his haystacks, cathedrals and water lilies.

As a teenager he earned pocket money drawing funny caricatures of local people, and later he lovingly tended a garden with a Japanese bridge that he painted again and again.

Water Lilies
Claude Monet, 1906Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)
Claude Monet, 1890–91Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare
Claude Monet, 1877Cliff Walk at Pourville
Claude Monet, 1882Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son
Claude Monet, 1875The Japanese Footbridge
Claude Monet, 1899The Houses of Parliament, Sunset
Claude Monet, 1903