Monet and camille biography of a relationship

Monet and Camille biography of a relationship

Monet and Camille

Biography of a relationship

November 14, 1840

Oscar-Claude Monet is born in Paris.

The family moves to Le Havre.

At the age of 18, Monet met the landscape painter Eugène Boudin, who encouraged him to paint. A first landscape-

paintings will be shown in the Municipal Exhibition in Le Havre. Monet decides to become a painter.

Monet travels to Paris and makes contacts with various artists.

Monet joins the free Académie Suisse and visits exhibitions by the Barbizon painters.

Monet is called up for a seven-year military service, which he stops after a year due to typhoid disease.

Monet returns to Le Havre on vacation. There he met the Dutch marine painter Johan Barthold Jongkind, with whom he did landscape studies in the wild.

At the request of his aunt, who supported him financially, Monet continued his artistic training in the studio of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where the later Impressionist companions Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille and Alfred Sisley were also enrolled. In addition to studio studies at Gleyre, Monet and Bazille go to the Fontainebleau forest and the Norman coast to paint in the great outdoors.

After the closure of the Gleyre studio, Monet continued his landscape studies on his own; his family, who would rather see him in the studio of a recognized master, threatens to withdraw his financial support. For the first time, Monet asks his friend Bazille for money, as he will often do in the following years.

Monet and Bazille move into a common studio in Paris. Monet is represented in the salon with two seascapes; positive reviews encourage him to make a big figure, breakfast in the green, which he tackles with great ambition. For the first time, the encounter with Camille Doncieux is documented here, which, like Bazille, stands for the painting model.

Breakfast in the country is not ready in time for the salon, so Monet paints the life-size portrait of Camille. The critics view the picture positively; many feel reminded of Edouard Manet’s works.

The great success in the salon temporarily provided Monet with further financial support from his relatives, so that he could paint free of financial worries in the summer of 1866: In Ville d’Avray near Paris, the large figure of women in the garden was created, for which Camille was once again the model.

Monet’s financial problems worsen again: the family refuses to support him, the women in the garden are rejected by the salon jury. In the spring it turns out that Camille is expecting a child. Numerous Monet’s petitions to Bazille testify to the hopelessness of his situation.

On August 8, Camille gave birth to her son Jean-Armand-Claude in the presence of Monet.

After a cold, poverty-stricken winter in Paris, Monet and Camille moved to the countryside in the spring of 1868, first to Bennecourt, then to Le Havre. There, five of Monet’s works are shown in the International Marine Exhibition, and the artist receives a silver medal.

In Louis-Joachim Gaudibert he finds an admirer who supports him with orders (including the portrait of Mme. Gaudibert) and also financially. Arsène Houssaye, head of L’Artiste magazine, buys the Camille painting for 800 francs.

Monet’s pictures are again rejected by the salon jury. In the shop window of the paint dealer Latouche, he exhibits a heavily discussed seascape. With Renoir he paints at the Grenouillère, a modern excursion venue near Paris. Here they develop the artistic language of Impressionism with short, free brushstrokes that represent the flickering light on the water.

Monet and Camille get married on June 28. They spend the summer in Trouville, where a series of studies with Camille is created on the beach. Because of the Franco-German war, Monet went into exile in London in autumn. There he met the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel.

Durand-Ruel buys paintings from Monet for the first time. The family travels to Holland and spends the summer in Zaandam. At the end of the year, Monet moved to Argenteuil with his family, where he rented a house with a studio near the Seine.

Above all, the purchases by Durand-Ruel enable Monet to work carefree in Argenteuil. In spring, a series of pictures were taken in Monet’s sunny garden; Camille and other people can be seen under blooming trees.

In the spring and summer, Monet painted the garden of his house several times with Camille and Jean. In April, he met Pissarro and Sisley to advise on an artists’ association that organized their own exhibitions. The Société anonyme coopérative d’artistes is founded on December 27th.

The exhibition of the Société anonyme coopérative d’artistes opens on April 15th. Monet shows, among other things, his work Impression, Sunrise, which brings the critic Louis Leroy to the derogatory term exposure of the impressionist: the term ?? impressionists ?? was born with it.

This summer Monet Camille paints very often, often accompanied by her son Jean. For the first time since 1868, Monet depicted her again in two large figures: The Walk. Woman with umbrella and Camille in Japanese costume.

Le again > 1877

A second pregnancy weakens Camille’s health. Monet works more in Paris this year, only a few pictures are taken in Argenteuil. He painted Camille only once in the painting Camille with a bouquet of violets. It is the last picture that Camille shows alive.

His second son Michel Monet is born on March 17th. In late summer the family moved to Vétheuil, a small town on the Seine near Paris. They share the house with the hoschedés who are bankrupt.

On September 5, 1879, Camille Doncieux died of abdominal cancer at the age of 32. Monet paints her one last time: Camille on her deathbed.

Camille’s death marks a human and economic low point in Monet’s life. In the years that followed, the artist’s situation began to improve continuously. Durand-Ruel supports Monet through regular purchases and exhibition activities.

After the death of Camille, Monet and his be live > In 1890 Monet bought the house in Giverny. He married Alice Hoschedé two years later.

December 5, 1926

Monet dies in Giverny.

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