Le Bassin d'Argenteuil

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.

1871

Zaandam: 25 paintings

Leaving London, Monet settled in Zaandam in the Netherlands, where he painted twenty-five pictures (the police suspected him of revolutionary activity). During this period he also made his first visit to Amsterdam.

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.