Claude Monet

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  • Oscar Claude Monet born

  • school of learning

    1851- 1857 attends school and learning to draw

  • becomes well known for caricature drawing.

  • moves to Paris to study painting, hoping to earn money as a newspaper caricaturist

  • begins large seascape paintings. Many financial debts incurred

  • Wins silver medal for paintings. Works refused to be shown by Peers at the Salon

  • Ten works included in an Exposition Internationale in Paris.

  • Forty nine works shown in New York exhibition.

  • Begins his famous Haystacks series.

  • Buys house and property at Giverny and starts improvements on the garden and ponds. This will become his passion in later years.

  • begins earliest studies of Water lilies paintings.

  • Paints Water Garden canvases.

  • temporary loss of sight in one eye

  • Begins painting the Water Lilies series.

  • Works on scenes from memory

  • Bad eye and health problems

  • Forty eight Water Lilies pictures exhibited

  • Eyesight deteriorates. Cataracts diagnosed

    The Water Lilies murals are officially dedicated and currently hang in the Orangerie in the Louvre, Paris.

  • Begins work on mural-sized versions of Water Lilies

  • Builds new studio to accommodate large mural canvases.

  • donates 12 Large Water Lilies paintings to the state

  • delays delivery of murals to the state with a final attempt to complete them satisfactorily

  • Claude Monet dies.

  • The Water Lilies murals are officially dedicated and currently hang in the Orangerie in the Louvre, Paris.