"Camille " is a painting by French Impressionist artist Claude Monet.
Camille Monet, Monet's first wife, deserves a web page of her own. For she, like the wives of other great Impressionist painters, was virtually lost in the shadows of the man... whose live she shared. And for as much as Monet may possessed the genius and resolve tostruggle to the top of his art, the woman who was at his side must receive some recognition not only because she posed for many of his most inspired works but because she shared his miseries, hopes and his disappointments in the years of most suffering. If the precise nature of the sentimental relationship between the Monet and Camille is unknown, evidence points to the fact that all was not well, perhaps from the very beginning. In fact, Monet may have married Camille partly because he was having financial difficulties. And tragically, Camille died young when her husband was deep in debt and very possibly already with a mistress. In any case, Monet was not without affection for Camille an the artist left not a few touching canvases with Camille as the primary subject. Camille as painted by Auguste Renoir in about 1874 Camille Doncieux was still in her teens when Monet met her around 1865.more
Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise . Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the 5th floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. He... was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians. On 20 May 1841, he was baptized in the local parish church, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, as Oscar-Claude, but his parents called him simply Oscar. In 1845, his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy. His father wanted him to go into the family grocery business, but Monet wanted to become an artist. His mother was a singer. On 1 April 1851, Monet entered Le Havre secondary school of the arts. Locals knew him well for his charcoal caricatures, which he would sell for ten to twenty francs.more
The Kunsthalle Bremen is an art museum in the city of Bremen, Germany. The Kunsthalle was built in 1849 and enlarged in 1902 by architect Eduard Gildemeister. The museum houses an important collection of paintings from the 19th and 20th century including works of artists from the nearby art colony of Worpswede.