Church Across a River

About The Artist: Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet was born November 14, 1840, in Paris. He spent his childhood in the Normandy coastal town of Le Havre, where his father prospered as a grocer and ship chandler. In 1860, Monet met the landscape artist Eugène Boudin, who introduced him to plein-air painting, and he began to produce increasingly ambitious and naturalistic work. In 1859, Monet moved to Paris, where he attended the Académie Suisse beginning in 1860....