Artist

Claude Monet

Portrait of Claude Monet
Portrait of Claude Monet

France

Claude Monet is a France Impressionism painter. 438 works are cataloged here, principally at Musée Marmottan Monet, most of them oil paintings.

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise, which was exhibited in 1874 at the First Impressionist Exhibition, initiated by Monet and a number of like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon.

Works by Claude Monet

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