Jean monet cause of death

14 November 1840

Oscar-Claude Monet is born in Paris.

Around 1845

The family moves to Le Havre.

1858

At the age of 18, Monet meets the landscape painter Eugène Boudin who encourages him to start painting.

One of his first landscape paintings is shown in a municipal exhibition of Le Havre. Monet decides to become a painter.

1859

Monet moves to Paris and gets in touch with various artists.

1860

Monet joins the independent Académie Suisse and visits exhibitions of the Barbizon painters.

April 1861

Monet is called up for seven years of military service which he breaks off after one year, however, on account of typhoid fever.

Claude monet descendants

1862–63

Monet returns to Le Havre to recover. There, he meets the Dutch marine painter Johan Barthold Jongkind with whom he does outdoor landscape studies.

At the request of his aunt, who supports him financially, Monet continues his education as a painter in the studio of Charles Gl