Friday, July 4, 2025

 Claude Monet
(1840 - 1926)

Monet was raised in Le Havre, Normandy, and became interested in the outdoors and drawing from an early age. Although his mother, Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, supported his ambitions to be a painter, his father, Claude-Adolphe, disapproved and wanted him to pursue a career in business. He was very close to his mother, but she died in January 1857 when he was sixteen years old, and he was sent to live with his childless, widowed but wealthy aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet

Still Life with Bottle, Carafe, Bread, and Wine 
1862 (22 years old)
Oil on canvas
39.69 × 59.85 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/164942-still-life-bottle-carafe-bread-and-wine

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