Pre-eminent artist of French impressionism, Claude Monet was above all a landscape painter who painted effects of light with unparalleled skill. Born in Paris, he grew up in Normandy and learned about painting out of doors with Eugène Boudin and Johan Barthold Jongkind. While he spent most of the 1870s living in Argenteuil just west of Paris near the River Seine, in 1878 h...
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