"I would like to paint as the bird sings" - Claude Oscar Monet (1840 -1926)

Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1940 in Pairs, France. Monet was a leader of Impressionists. 

His youth was spent in Le Havre, During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). He studied the
work of Constable and Turner. Here are some of his early works:

Bathing at La Grenouillere

Hotel des Roches Noires, Trouville

Red Kerchief

Monet painted canals, boats, and windmills in Holland and worked again at Le Havre. Here are his first Impressionist paintings,

Soleil levant

Regate a Argenteuil 

The Highway Bridge at Argenteuil 

Here are some of Monet's Late Impressionism pictures:

Vetheuil dans le brouillard,

Camille Monet sur son lit de mort

 The Bearking up of the ice at Vetheuil 

La Seine a Lavacourt