Monet I |
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Claude Monet I - 1840-1879
1840 –
Born in Paris son of wholesale grocer Adolphe Monet and his wife Louise.
1845 –
Family moves to Le Havre, most important port on English channel coast.
1855
- Monet gains reputation for
caricatures of local worthies.
1856 –
Seacoast painter Eugène Boudin introduces him to open-air painting.
1859-60 –
First visit to Paris , meets landscapist Constant Troyon and Realist circle.
1861-62 –
Military service, stationed in Algeria.
1862 –
Meets Jockind in Normandy, enters Gleyre studio in Paris where he will meet
Bazille, Renoir and Sisley.
1864 –
Painting in forest of Fontainebleau, on channel coast, around Honfleur and Le
Havre.
1865 –
Shows two seascapes at Paris Salon. Meets Camille Doncieux young woman of
bourgeois background from Lyon. Begins Déjeuner sur l’Herbe.
1866 –
Fails to finish Déjeuner sur l’herbe, works on Women in the Garden
in Ville d’Avray.
1867 –
Women in the Garden refused in Salon. Birth of his son Jean, financial
difficulties force him to move back to his family in Le Havre.
1868 –
Living with Camille and Jean at Etretat.
1869 –
Submissions rejected at Salon. Living and working in Bougival often in
the company of Renoir and Pissarro.
1870 –
Marries Camille, honeymoon in Trouville. Takes refuge in London in autumn after
break-out of Franco-Prussian war.
1871 –
Introduced in London by François Daubigny to his future dealer Durand-Ruel.
Returns to France via Holland, rents house in Argenteuil at end of year.
1872
– Visits imprisoned Courbet, works
in Le Havre and Rouen, briefly returns to Holland, paints with Renoir in
Argenteuil.
1873
- Decides to send nothing more to
Salon. Builds studio boat. Meets
Caillebotte and agrees to group exhibition. Camille inherits from her father 15
000 francs.
1874 –
First Impressionist exhibition at Nadar’s 35 boulevard des Capucines April 15
to May 15. Monet shows 12 works including “Impression – Sunrise”. Joined by Manet and Renoir in
Argenteuil.
1875 –
Auction sale of Impressionist paintings at Drouot , Monet sells for between 165
and 325 frs. Great financial difficulties, asks help from Manet, Camille taken
ill.
1876 –
Second Impressionist exhibition, shows 18 pictures. Camille’s money is used up, visits collector Ernest
Hoschedé. Begins Gare Saint-Lazare series.
1877 –
Third Impressionist exhibition, exhibits 30 paintings. Still desperate
financial straits.
1878 –
Paris world fair. Monets settle in Vétheuil, Michel Monet is born. Hoschedé is
bankrupt, sale of his collection, his wife and 6 children move in with the
Monets at Vétheuil.
1879 –
Fourth Impressionist exhibition, shows 29 pictures. Following Renoir’s example decides to show at Salon
again. Camille dies in September.
Gives up painting until winter. |
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