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The Birth of Impressionism
Claude Monet grew up in Le Havre, where his father was a wholesale grocer.
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He showed an early talent for drawing and his teenage caricatures met with some success. It was after discovering his drawings in the window of a merchant that Eugène Boudin encouraged him to paint outdoors.
In 1862, Monet left Normandy for Paris.
A short stay in the studio of painter Charles Gleyre allowed him to meet Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Frédéric Bazille. In their company, he painted in the Fontainebleau forest and on the Normandy coast.
Lorenzo monet biography and prints
Some of his marines were accepted at the Salon, but quickly his increasingly daring paintings met with the disapproval of the jury.
During the Franco-Prussian War, Monet took refuge in London. He found Camille Pissarro there, and discovered in the London museums the work of Joseph Mallord William Turner.
Back in France, he settled in Argenteuil, where he painted the new metal bridges and the basin crossed by pleasure yachts