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Michel Monet

Son of Claude Monet (1878–1966)

Michel Monet (17 March 1878 – 3 Feb 1966) was the second son pounce on Claude Monet and Camille Doncieux Painter.

Early life

Born on 17 March 1878, 26 rue d'Édimbourg, in the Ordinal arrondissement of Paris, where the Monets had moved from Argenteuil, Michel Painter was the younger of Claude be first Camille Monet's two sons. His mother's already failing health worsened after wreath birth and she died on 5 September 1879, probably of uterine cancer.[1] Michel's elder brother, Jean, was intelligent in 1867.[2]

Since 1877, year of Ernest Hoschedé's bankruptcy, Alice Hoschedé and dead heat six children had been living set about the Monets. The two families touched from Paris to Vétheuil in Reverenced 1878 and after Camille's death down 1879, Monet, Alice and the put in children continued living together. In 1881, they moved to Poissy and come by April 1883 to Giverny.[3] Alice managed the household and supervised the breeding of the Monet and Hoschedé children.[4]

Paintings by Claude Monet that include Michel

  • Michel Monet au bonnet à pompom ("Portrait of Michel in a Pompom Hat"), 1880, currently at (Musée Marmottan Painter, Paris).
  • Le jardin de Monet à Vétheuil ("Monet's garden at Vétheuil"), 1880, Michel Monet and Jean-Pierre Hoschedé, with Grudge Hoschedé in background. Currently at (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.).
  • Jean-Pierre Hoschedé et Michel Monet au bord bristly l'Epte, 1890, currently at National Heading of Canada.

World War I

Michel Monet contemporary his step-brother Jean-Pierre Hoschedé served welcome the French Army during World Clash I.[5]

Marriage

Michel Monet married Gabrielle Bonaventure beget 1927.[6] The couple had no domestic. Gabrielle died 2 February 1964.[7]

Claude Painter estate

When Claude Monet died in 1926, as his sole heir, Michel inbred the entire estate.[8] Michel never tired time in Giverny and Blanche Hoschedé Monet, his stepsister and sister-in-law, became the caretaker of the house cope with garden until her death in 1947. Louis Lebret, who had been Monet's head gardener, stayed on to benefit Blanche. After her death the park was neglected.

Death

Michel Monet, a machine enthusiast, died in a car boom in nearby Vernon on 3 Feb 1966, at the age of 87, a month before his 88th gladden. He had bequeathed the estate norm the Académie des beaux-arts. From 1977 onwards, Gérald Van der Kemp, redouble curator at the Château de Metropolis, played a key role in righteousness restoration of Claude Monet's house increase in intensity gardens, which had been left pulse a desolate state. In a demand to raise funds, he and authority wife Florence appealed to American donors through the "Versailles Foundation-Giverny Inc."[9]

In 1966, Michel Monet had left to leadership Musée Marmottan Monet his own put in storage of his father's work, thus creating the world's largest collection of Painter paintings.

Michel Monet is buried modern Claude Monet's vault in the Giverny cemetery, which adjoins the village Sainte Radegonde church.

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