14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926

Oscar-Claude Oscar-Claude MonetMonet

On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, 1868. On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, 1868. An early example of plein-air impressionism, An early example of plein-air impressionism, in which a gestural and suggestive use of oil in which a gestural and suggestive use of oil

paint was presented as a finished work of paint was presented as a finished work of art.art.

In 1872 (or 1873), he painted Impression, Sunrise (Impression: In 1872 (or 1873), he painted Impression, Sunrise (Impression: soleil levant) depicting a Le Havre landscape. It hung in the soleil levant) depicting a Le Havre landscape. It hung in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and is now displayed in first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and is now displayed in the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris. From the painting's title, the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris. From the painting's title, art critic Louis Leroy coined the term "Impressionism", which art critic Louis Leroy coined the term "Impressionism", which he intended as disparagement but which the Impressionists he intended as disparagement but which the Impressionists appropriated for themselves.appropriated for themselves.

Gallery of early paintingsGallery of early paintings

The Woman in the Green Dress, Camille Doncieux, 1866, Kunsthalle Bremen

Le dejeuner sur lherbe, (right section), with Gustave Courbet, 1865-1866, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Woman in a Garden, 1867, Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Poppies Blooming, 1873, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Street near Vétheuil in Winter, 1879

Jean Monet on his Hobby Horse, 1872, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Gallery of later paintings

Still-Life with Anemones, 1885 Garden Path, 1902

Water Lilies, 1914-1917, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio

Monet died of lung cancer on 5 December 1926 at the age of 86 and is buried in the Giverny church cemetery

Water Lilies, 1920-1926, Musée de l'Orangerie

Monet, right, in his garden

at Vernon, 1922.