Claude Oscar Monet

1840 Claude Oscar Monet is born in Paris, on 14 November, the second son of a shopkeeper.
1845 the Family move to Le Havre where Monet's talent for drawing is apparent in caricatures of teachers and others.
1858 Meets the landscape artist Eugene Boudin (1824-1898) who encourages him to paint out of doors.
1859 Monet goes to Paris to study art . He visits the Salon, and works at the Académie Suisse, where he meets Camille Pissarro (1830-1903).
1862 Meets Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891). Enters the studio of Charles Gleyre (1806-1874), a Swiss painter who lives
in Paris. There he meets Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) and Frederic Bazille (1841-1870).
1864 Meets his first art lover, Gaudibert.
1865 The Salon accepts two Monet marine paintings. Camille Doncieux, his future wife and Bazille pose for his Le Déjeuner
sur l'herbe (The Picnic).
1872 Durand-Ruel buys a large selection of paintings. Monet creates his studio boat and paints the banks of the Seine. At Le
Havre he paints Impression, Sun Rising.
1873 Meets Gustave Caillebotte
1874 Monet exhibits Impression, Sun Rising at the first Impressionist exhibition in the studio of Nadar.
1876 At the second Impressionist show in Durand-Ruel's gallery, Monet exhibits 18 paintings. Meets department-store director
Ernest Hoschede.
1879 Camille dies at the age of 32.
1883 Monet rents the house at Giverny, and in December goes to the south of France with Renoir.
1887 Durand-Ruel opens a New York gallery and exhibits Monet's works there.
1888 Begins the Haystacks series.
1889 Monet and Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) exhibition together.
1891 The Haystacks exhibition at Durand-Ruel's is a great success.
1892 Paints the Rouen Cathedral series. He marries Alice Raingo, widow of Ernest Hoschedé.
1895 Monet visits his stepson in Norway. Durand-Ruel exhibits the Rouen Cathedral series.
1897 Builds a second studio at Giverny. The second Venice Biennale includes 20 Monets.
1899 Monet begins his waterlilies series in the water gardens at Giverny.
1900 Monet paints several views of the Japanese bridge. He takes several trips to London and paints views of the Thames.
1904 Monet travels to Madrid with Alice and admires the paintings of Velasquez.
1906 Monet continues work on his waterlilies series. Death of Cezanne on 22 October.
1908 First symptoms of the cataract. Visits Venice with Alice.
1911 Alice Monet dies on 19 May.
1915 Monet builds a large studio of 23 m x 12m at Giverny to work on the decorative waterlilies project.
1919 Death of Auguste Renoir.
1921 Major retrospective at DurandRuel's.
1926 Claude Monet dies at Giverny. He is buried in a simple ceremony at Giverny.