Claude Monet当时的生活
完整生平c. 1858
Meeting Eugène Boudin
In Le Havre the young caricaturist Monet met Eugène Boudin, who taught him to paint en plein air and took him along on painting excursions. Monet regarded Boudin as the teacher to whom he "owed everything."
1859
First trip to Paris
Monet arrived in Paris, immediately visited the Salon, and became a regular at the Brasserie des Martyrs, a gathering place for writers and artists. Two months later he decided to stay in the capital, declining to enter the École des Beaux-Arts.
c. February 1860
Académie Suisse: meeting Pissarro
In early 1860, probably in February, Monet enrolled at the Académie Suisse on the Île de la Cité, where he met Camille Pissarro.
April 1861 – November 1862
Military service in Algeria
Monet enlisted in the 1st Regiment of African Light Cavalry (Chasseurs d'Afrique) and arrived in Algeria in June 1861. In spring 1862 he contracted typhoid; his aunt bought him out of the army. The light and colors of North Africa, in his words, "contained the germ of my future researches."
1870年6月28日
Married: Camille Doncieux
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.
