Alice Raingo Hoschedé Monet (February 19, 1844 – May 19, 1911) was the wife of department store magnate and art collector

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painter

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Early life

According to unsourced genealogical data reported by Michael Legrand, she was born Angélique Émilie Alice Raingo on February 19, 1844, in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...

to Denis Lucien Alphonse Raingo and his wife Jeanne Coralie Boulade.

Marriage to Ernest Hoschedé

After meeting her future daughter-in-law in 1863, Ernest Hoschedé's mother wrote of Alice: Her children (by

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Life with the Monet family

In 1876, Ernest Hoschedé commissioned Monet to paint decorative panels for the ''Château de Rottembourg'' and several landscape paintings. According to the ''Nineteenth-century European Art: A Topical Dictionary'', it may have been during this visit that Monet began a relationship with Alice and her youngest son, Jean-Pierre, may have been fathered by Monet. Ernest Hoschedé went bankrupt in 1877. Ernest, Alice, and their children moved into a house in

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with Monet, Monet's first wife Camille, and the Monets' two sons, Jean and Michel. Ernest spent increasing lengths of time in Paris. He then lived in Paris and worked at '' le Voltaire''. Claude Monet - Monet's garden at Vétheuil (1880)

Claude Monet - Monet's garden at Vétheuil (1880)

There are times when Ernest Hoschedé returns to visit his wife and children at the successive Monet households of Vetheuil, Poissy and Giverny. During those times Monet leaves the household. The separation from Alice, though, leaves Monet greatly distressed, experiencing nightmares, and generally unable to paint. Before the Monet and Hoschedé families had moved to Poissy, Ernest Hoschedé had refused to pay his share of the upkeep for Alice and the children. In 1886 he showed up and demanded that his wife and children return with him to Paris, but Alice remained with Monet.

Relationship with Claude Monet

After Camille Monet's death in 1879, Monet and Alice (along with the children from the two respective families) continued living together at

Poissy Poissy () is a Communes of France, commune in the Yvelines Departments of France, department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris. Inhabitan ...

and later at

Giverny Giverny () is a commune in the northern French department of Eure.Commune de Giverny (27285 ...

. Still married to Ernest Hoschedé and living with Claude Monet, the ''Le Gaulois'' newspaper in Paris declared that she was Monet's "charming wife" in 1880. Ernest Hoschedé died in 1891 and Alice agreed to marry Monet in 1892. Alice died on 19 May 1911. Her disappearance deeply affected the painter. On the night of her death, he wrote to his friend,

Gustave Geffroy Gustave Geffroy (1 June 1855 – 4 April 1926) was a French journalist, art critic, historian and novelist. He was one of the ten founding members of the literary organisation Académie Goncourt in 1900. Geffroy is noted as one of the first histo ...

, a French art historian and novelist: This letter is on display in one of the rooms of

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.Foundation Claude Monet in Giverny

Retrieved on 6 September 2020.

Paintings of Alice

Some of the paintings of Alice Hoschedé Monet are: * Claude Monet, ''Breakfast under the Tent, Giverny'', 1888 *

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, ''Mme Hoschedé and Her Son in Monet's Garden, Giverny * John Singer Sargent, ''Claude Monet Painting''

In popular culture

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portrayed Hoschedé in the 2006 BBC docudrama '' The Impressionists''.

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