Boulevard of the Capuchins

(Paris 1840 - Eure 1926)



Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter. At the age of fifteen, he drew caricatures, which he exhibited in a bookstore in Le Havre, a town to which his family had moved in 1845. The painter Eugène Boudin saw those displays of the boy's artistic talent and encouraged him to dedicate himself to landscape painting.



In 1859, Monet moved to Paris and enrolled in the Swiss Academy, where he met Pissarro. He spent two years in Algeria as a soldier, and...

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