Who is Claude Monet? Claude Monet is the Famous French Impressionist painter. In addition to being a great painter Monet was also a great leader, an initiator and a firm advocate of the Impressionist style. The Impressionist style in which he painted would become the reason behind his well known fame.
             Born Nov. 14, 1840, Monet spent his childhood years in Le Havre, France. He took his early painting lessons in Le Havre from the painter Eugene Boudin. It was there that he began to excel as a caricaturist, but was soon converted to landscape painting by his mentor Eugene Boudin. Eugene Boudin , who specialized in scenes of people strolling on beaches, worked up sketches out-of-doors and encouraged Monet to do the same.
             In 1859, Monet spent some time in Paris and studied for a short time at Atelier Suisse with Gleyre, which is also where he met and became friends with Pissarro and Manet.
             From 1860-62 Monet was enrolled in the military service in Algeria, soon thereafter he returned to Paris. Once back in Paris, he studied under Gleyre full time and which is where he met Renoir, Sisley and Bazille, who were also students of Gleyre.
             In 1862 Monet had begun to paint out-of-doors. His devotion to painting out-of-doors was illustrated by one of his earlier works, Women in the Garden (Musee d'Orsay, Paris; 1866-67). The painting is about 2.5 meters high, he had a trench dug so that the canvas could be raised or lowered to the height he desired.
             Monet had experienced financial hardship from 1867-70. The birth of his illegitimate son Jean in 1867 occurred under such a financial hardship, that during a time of poverty and hunger in 1968, Monet attempted suicide. It was at this time that Bazill bought Monet's Women in the Garden and Renoir stole bread for the family; they were Monet's sole
             During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) he took refuge in England with Pissarro. Not only did he study the work of Consta
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