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Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)
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HISTORICAL SETTING
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Claude Monet, as an artist, was never much involved in politics, and historical events didn't effect his life very much.
He was living in France, and was thirty years old when his country suddenly was thrown into chaos by war, in 1870. French Emperor, Napoleon III, declared war on the powerful German state of Prussia. Monet didn't want to be called upon to fight so he left France with Camille and Jean. They traveled to London, Britain, where they stayed until the end of the war, in 1871. Monet stayed busy and he painted many paintings of London and river Thames during that time. Meanwhile Claude's father died in France, and shortly after that his aunt Madame Lecadre passed away too. Also Monet's very good and loyal friend, Bazille, was killed in battle.
When the World War I had begun in 1914 Claude Monet was already an old man. At seventy-four years of age he didn't have to worry about getting involved at all. During years of the war he started to paint one of the most known and beautiful series of his paintings called Water Lilies.
During Monet's life America had twenty two presidents, from Martin Van Buren to Calvin Coolidge. America was shaken by the
Civil War during the years 1861 to 1865 when Abraham Lincoln was the president. Claude Monet was a young artist by then, just entering an art scene in Paris, and living in France he didn't get involved in the American war at all.
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Water Lilies Pond
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