Pleasure Crafts

28. juni 1870

Married: Camille Doncieux

28 June 1870

Marriage to Camille Doncieux

Monet married his model Camille Doncieux shortly before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War.

1870–1871

London exile

Evading conscription during the Franco-Prussian War, Monet lived in London, where he studied Constable and Turner, met Pissarro and Whistler, and became acquainted with his first and principal dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel — an encounter decisive for his career.

1874

First Impressionist exhibition

At the exhibition, organized on the initiative of Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon, "Impression, Sunrise" was shown. The critic Leroy mockingly dubbed the participants "impressionists" — and so the term Impressionism was born.

1879

Death of Camille

The artist's wife Camille Doncieux died at Vétheuil; Monet painted her posthumous portrait. Her death, along with financial difficulties, weighed heavily on the artist.

december 1881 – april 1883 · Bopæl

Villa Saint-Louis