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Claude-Oscar MONET

1840 - 1926
France

Born in Paris, Monet was a native of Le Havre, the son of a grocer. Contact 
with  Boudin in about 1856 introduced Monet to painting from nature. He was 
in Paris in 1859 and three years later he entered the studio of Gleyre, where he 
met  Renoir, Sisley and Bazille. 

Manet was an influence on his figure compositions of the 1860s, while the 
informal style of his later landscapes originated in works such as Bathers at 
La Grenouillère, painted in 1869 when Monet worked with Renoir at Bougival.

He was the leading French Impressionist landscape painter.
Bathers at La Grenouillère, MONET, 1869
The Petit Bras of the Seine at Argenteuil, MONET, 1872
Lavacourt under Snow, MONET, painted 1879-81
The Beach at Trouville, MONET, 1870
The Museum at Le Havre, Claude-Oscar MONET, 1873
Flood Waters
Claude-Oscar MONET
about 1896

The Thames below Westminster, MONET, 1871
The Gare St-Lazare
Claude-Oscar MONET
1877
The Water-Lily Pond
Claude-Oscar MONET
1899


The Beach at Trouville

MONET 
1870

Signed and dated: Cl.M.70.
Canvas, 37.5 x 45.7 cm 
Purchased by the Trustees of the Courtauld Fund 1924; returned from the Tate Gallery, 1961.

The painting is one of five 
canvases showing figures on the beach which Monet produced in the summer of 1870, before his move to London. 

These may, like Bathers at La 
Grenouillère, have been preparatory

Bathers at La Grenouillère, MONET, 1869

sketches for a larger painting that Monet intended to submit to the Salon. The figure to the left is probably

Monet’s mistress, Camille, whom he had recently married, and that on the right may well be the wife

of  Boudin, whose own beach scenes were influential on the young Monet.

 
Lavacourt under Snow

MONET
1881

Signed and dated: Claude Monet 1881. Canvas, 59.7 x 80.6 cm 
Lane Bequest, 1917; 
on loan to Dublin since 1979.

Traditionally called Vétheuil: Sunshine and Snow, this picture 
is considered more likely to 
show Lavacourt, on the other 
side of the Seine from Vétheuil.

 

The Gare St-Lazare

MONET3
1870s
Signed, bottom right: Claude Monet.
Canvas, 54.3 x 73.6 cm 
Purchased by private treaty, 1982.

After his return to France from London, Monet lived during the years 
1871-8 at Argenteuil, on the Seine near Paris. 
In January 1877 he rented a small flat and 
a studio near the Gare St-Lazare, and in the fourth
Impressionist exhibition, which opened in April of that year,
he exhibited seven canvases of the station. 

The National Gallery painting is one of four surviving canvases representing the
interior of the station. Trains and railways had been 
shown in earlier Impressionist works 
(and by Turner in his Rain, Steam and Speed), but were an aspect of 
life not generally regarded as aesthetically palatable.


 
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