Claude Monet

Claude Monet was a French landscape painter and a founder of impressionism. He held onto his belief of his painting style throughout his long career and is considered to be the most consistently representative painter of that time. He is also one of the leading painters of landscapes in the history of art. Claude Monet was born in Paris in 1840 but spent his early life in Le Havre. Monet loved to draw and spent much …

…home in Giverny. In the last decade of his life Monet, nearly blind, painted a group of large water lily murals, Nympheas for the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris. Many of Monet's work can be seen in the Louvre, the Marmottan in Paris, the National Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Many of his pieces are part of many famous private collections. Monet died in 1926.