Jean Monet (August 8, 1867 – February 10, 1914) was the eldest son of French Impressionist artist
Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. Durin ...
and
Camille Doncieux Monet and the brother of
Michel Monet. He was the subject of several paintings by his father and married his step-sister,
Blanche Hoschedé.
Early life
Jean Monet was born to Camille Doncieux and Claude Monet on August 8, 1867. During that summer Claude Monet was staying at his father's house in
Sainte-Adresse
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Geography
A coastal suburb situated some northwest of Le Havre city centre, at the junction of the D147 and the D940. The English Channel forms t ...
, a suburb of
Le Havre
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. Monet went to Paris for the birth of Jean and returned to Sainte-Adresse on the 12th of the month.
The first portrait that Monet made of his son was of the four-month-old ''Jean Monet in His Cradle''. Alongside Jean was a woman Julie Vellay, a companion of
Camille Pissarro, rather than his mother.
According to Mary Mathews Gedo, author of ''Monet and his Muse: Camile Monet in the Artist's Life:''
::The identification of Jean's attendant as someone other than his mother seems entirely consistent with what would prove to be Monet's future insistence on depicting Camille as 'unmother'. Mother and son were only shown in the same physical space in one painting during the Argenteuil years by Monet, ''The Luncheon''.
In 1868, after having left Paris to escape creditors and find more affordable housing, the three moved to Gloton, a small scenic village near Bennecourt. They were thrown out of the inn they were staying in for non-payment. Camille and Jean were able to stay with someone in the country, while Monet tried to obtain monies for survival. However, without money for a medical treatment, Jean became quite ill. After a dramatic period experienced by Camille and Jean, Claude was able to obtain funds for housing for his family in Le Havre.
His parents were married on June 28, 1870.
When Jean was a young child his mother and father had fled France during the
Franco-Prussian War. They returned by the summer of 1872 when Claude painted his five-year-old son on a hobby horse in the garden of the home the family rented in
Argenteuil
Argenteuil () is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. Argenteuil is a sub-prefecture of the Val-d'Oise department, the seat of the arrondissement of Argenteuil.
Argenteuil is the sec ...
near Paris. Claude Monet kept the painting, and never exhibited it, throughout his life.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Education
He trained to be a chemist in Switzerland.
Marriage
Monet married his step-sister, the painter
Blanche Hoschedé, in 1897. They lived in
Rouen, where Jean worked for his uncle Léon Monet as a chemist, and Beaumont-le-Roger until 1913.
The couple visited Giverny on weekends.
Death
Jean suffered an illness for a period of time and died on February 10, 1914. He is buried at the Giverny Church Cemetery,
. His wife
Blanche,
father
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, and brother
Michel are also buried at the cemetery.
Paintings by his father
Paintings by Claude Monet of his son:
* ''Jean Monet in His Cradle''
* ''Jean Monet Sleeping'', 1867-1868
* ''Child with a Cup: Portrait of Jean Monet,'' 1868
* ''The Luncheon,'' 1868-1869
* ''Portrait of Jean Monet Wearing a Hat with a Pompom'', 1870
* ''Jean Monet on his Hobby Horse,'' 1872
* ''Camille and Jean Monet in the Garden at Argenteuil '', 1873
[List of Monet paintings.](_blank)
cmonetgallery.com Retrieved August 28, 2014.
* ''Camille in the Garden with Jean and His Nurse'', 1873
* ''Jean in the artist's house,'' 1875
* ''
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son'', 1875
* ''Jean Monet'', 1880
Gallery
Paintings by Claude Monet
File:Monet - Jean Monet im Hause des Künstlers.jpg, ''Jean in the artist's house,'' 1875
File:Claude Monet 011.jpg, '' Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son'', 1875, National Gallery of Art
Paintings by other artists
File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Madame Monet and her Son.jpg, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ''Madame Monet and her son'', National Gallery of Art
File:Édouard Manet --The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil.jpg, Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
Bo ...
, ''The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil'', Metropolitan Museum of Art
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1867 births
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