Claude Monet Self-Portrait 1915-17c oil on canvas 70 x 55 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris Claude Monet (1840 – 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. For full biographical notes on Monet see part 1. For earlier works by Monet see parts 1 - 12 also. This is part 13 of a 27-part series on the works of Claude…
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