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Claude Monet

1840 - 1926

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Oscar-Claude Monet (UK: , US: ; French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, which was exhibited in 1874 at the First Impressionist Exhibition, initiated by Monet and a number of like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon. Monet was raised in Le Havre, Normandy, and became interested in the outdoors and drawing from an early age. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Claude Monet is the 9th most popular painter (down from 7th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from France and the most popular French Painter.

Claude Monet was a French painter who is most famous for his paintings of water lilies, haystacks, and other scenes of nature.

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Among painters, Claude Monet ranks 9 out of 2,023. Before him are Pablo Picasso, Raphael, Rembrandt, Salvador Dalí, Albrecht Dürer, and Frida Kahlo. After him are Peter Paul Rubens, Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Johannes Vermeer, Sandro Botticelli, and Edvard Munch.

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Among people born in 1840, Claude Monet ranks 2. Before him is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. After him are Thomas Hardy, Émile Zola, Auguste Rodin, Carlota of Mexico, Victoria, Princess Royal, Murad V, Alphonse Daudet, Odilon Redon, Edward Drinker Cope, and Ernst Abbe. Among people deceased in 1926, Claude Monet ranks 1. After him are Antoni Gaudí, Rainer Maria Rilke, Mehmed VI, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Emperor Taishō, Harry Houdini, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Camillo Golgi, and Sunjong of Korea.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Monet ranks 10 out of 6,770. Before him are Blaise Pascal (1623), Joan of Arc (1412), Louis XVI of France (1754), Victor Hugo (1802), Voltaire (1694), and Louis Pasteur (1822). After him are Jules Verne (1828), Molière (1622), Montesquieu (1689), Maximilien Robespierre (1758), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), and Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Claude Monet ranks 1. After him are Henri Matisse (1869), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Paul Cézanne (1839), Paul Gauguin (1848), Édouard Manet (1832), Eugène Delacroix (1798), Edgar Degas (1834), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Gustave Courbet (1819), and Nicolas Poussin (1594).

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