Fun Fact
Monet's Artistic Aunt: When teenage Claude's father opposed his career, his painter aunt Marie-Jeanne funded his life-changing move from Le Havre to Paris to study art.
Chapter 1
The teenage cartoonist of Le Havre
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Chapter 2
The birth of the Impressionists
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Chapter 3
Chasing light across the seasons
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Chapter 4
The floating world of Giverny
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YOUR GOAL
Master of The world of Claude Monet
Ch 1 · The teenage cartoonist of Le Havre
streetspirit The Le Havre Cartoonist
Sketching the town, sketching the town! / Young Monet's drawings all around!
streetspirit Monet rejected his father's grocery business to pursue formal art training in Paris.
Fun Fact
Monet's first name: He was born Oscar-Claude Monet, and his family always called him Oscar during his childhood.
streetspirit Landscape painter Eugène Boudin introduced the young Monet to painting outdoors, changing his artistic path forever.
Glossary
caricature (noun)
A representation of a person in which distinctive features are deliberately exaggerated for comic effect. A teenage Claude Monet successfully sold such sketches in a Le Havre framing shop during the 1850s.
A representation of a person in which distinctive features are deliberately exaggerated for comic effect. A teenage Claude Monet successfully sold such sketches in a Le Havre framing shop during the 1850s.
BETA
streetspirit Match Monet's fellow painters to discover the friends who supported his artistic journey.
Quiz
What did teenage Claude Monet sell in Le Havre before becoming a landscape painter?
Quiz
Which of these artists did Claude Monet meet at Charles Gleyre's studio in 1862?