Monet his family

 

 

Impressionism, a historical reconstruction:

Claude Monet

(1840-1926)

his family

 

Monet and his family:
This page renders some information and pictures on Claude Monet and his family. First on his parental family, then on Camille and their two children Jean and Michel, then on Alice Hoschedé and her 6 children.
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Monet and his parental family:
Oscar-Claude Monet was born 1840/11/14 in Paris, 45, Rue Laffitte (R22I,p9). His father Adolphe was a merchant and moved in 1845 with the family to Le Havre (30, Rue d’Epréméril, now disappeared; R22I,p10). His father entered the business of his brother-in-law Jacques Lecadre, a ship chandler and grocer.
1857/01/28 his mother died.
1858/09/30 his uncle died.
His aunt, Sophie Lecadre, who had no children, would take care of her nephew Claude and supported him in his career as a painter. Sophie was the half-sister of Adolphe Monet.
The Lecadre family had a weekend house in Sainte-Adresse, called Le Coteau, 16, rue Charles-Dalencourt, more in the town centre. Le Coteau had a large garden (R22,no68; iR9). The family also had another estate, maybe at 2, Sentier Alponse-Karr (iR9; R22,no95). This estate had a terrace with a view on the English channel. After Monet had left for Paris (1859/05) he would often return to these estates and would depict it in (the Spring or Summer of) 1866 (CR68 +68a=96 +69) and in (the Summer of) 1867 (CR95). He also depicted Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre (1842-1917) a distant cousin (CR68).
1870/07/07 Sophie Lecadre died.
1871/01/17 his father Adolphe Monet died, while Monet was in exile in London (R22I,p88;R464,p11+12)
Monet depicted his father 3x, one time in the Lecadre garden (CR53 +53a=45 +68a=96).
Monet never depicted his mother in a painting (R22).

Monet and Camille, Jean and Michel:
Around 1866 Claude Monet starts a relationship with Camille Doncieux (1847-1879; iR3). In August 1867 their son Jean is born at 8, Impasse Saint-Louis, Batignolles, Paris (iR3). 1870/06/28 Claude and Camille married in Trouville (R5,p64). Due to the French-Prussian war the family later that year flew to London. After a stay in Zaandam, Monet returned in Paris in the Autumn of 1871 and at the end of that year he moved to Argenteuil, where Claude depicted Camille and Jean in the house and garden (R22I,p91+93). In 1878 the familly moved to Vétheuil, where Camille gave birth to Michel (1878/03/17). A year later the Hoschedé family joined them. Camille died 1879/09/05 in Vétheuil, after a long sickbed.
Monet depicted Camille (CR64-67 +110 +158-161 +163 +257 +280 +281 +287 +366 +382 +387 +405? +410 +412-415? +436 +543), Jean (CR100 +108 +131 +142 +238 +285 +365 +632 +1066), Camille and Jean (CR129 +130 +132 +282 +381), Michel (CR504 +633 +684 +685 +847).

 

Monet and Alice Hoschedé and her 6 children:
Alice Hoschedé was married with the art-collector Ernest Hoschedé. From September up to November 1877 Claude Monet would spent a long period at their estate the château Rottembourg in Montgeron (R22I,p123-125). 1877/08/18 Hoschedé was declared bankrupt. In the Autumn(?) of 1879 the Hoschedé family moved in with Monet in Vétheuil. Shortly after Ernest went living in Paris. Alice and the children stayed with Monet and moved with him to Poissy (1881/12) and later to Giverny (1883/04). 1891/03/18 Ernest died. 1892/07/16 Claude Monet married Alice.
Ernest and Alice had 6 children: Marthe (1864-1925), Blanche (1865-1947), Suzanne (1868-99), Germaine (1873-1968, see CR434), Jacques (1873-1968, Jean-Pierre (1877-1961) (iR4).
4 days after the marriage of Claude and Alice, 1892/07/20, Suzanne Hoschedé marries the American painter Theodore Butler.
After Suzanne her death in 1899, her elder sister Marthe would marry the same Theodore Butler.
Three years earlier in 1896 Jacques married and moved to Norway, where Claude would visit him here 1895/02/01 onwards (R22,no1393).
In 1897 his son Jean and his stepdaughter Blanche married.
In 1902 Germaine married Salerou.
In 1903 Jean-Pierre married.
1911/05/19 Alice dies. Due to his grief Monet hardly paints for a long time.
1914/02/10 Jean dies after a long sickbed. His widow, Blanche Hoschedé will become the permanent housekeeper for Claude. Jean and Blanche had no children.
After the death of Claude 1926/12/05 his son Michel (1878-1966) inhereted the estate and the collection. But, it was Blanche who stayed and lived at the estate. After her death in 1947 the estate was neglected.
Michel would mary in 1931, but had no legal offspring (iR4). After his death the Giverny estate was donated to L’Institut de France / the Academie des Beaux-Arts (an opponant of Claude during his life) and the collection to the Musée Marmottan (M2). In 1980 the Fondation Claude Monet opened the estate in Giverny for the public.
Monet depicted Alice Hoschedé (CR613 +680 +705), Germaine Hoschedé (CR434 +1136 +1207), Jean-Pierre Hoschedé (CR503 +684 +685), Blanche Hoschedé (CR619 +1131 +1132), Suzanne Hoschedé (CR1066 +1076 +1077 +1131-1136 +1261), family (in the field or boat) (CR1075 + 1174-1153 +1203 +1204 +1206 +1249 +1250).

 

 

Sources:
My main source is the catalogue raisonné of Wildenstein (1996=R22). See also the overview of the Catalogue Raisonné numbers (still in development). Another important source is the biography of Stuckey (R464,p11-16). See for other used sources at the bottom of the main page about Claude Monet. See the link for explanation of the subscriptions.

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