Where to See Claude Monet

31 more museums hold works by Claude Monet with smaller collections, not listed here.

• Where can I see Claude Monet paintings?+

  In Paris, Musée Marmottan Monet holds Impression, Sunrise, while Musée de l’Orangerie houses the monumental Water Lilies ensemble. Other collections include Musée d’Orsay and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Check each museum’s current displays before travelling.
• Where Claude Monet from?+

  Claude Monet was French^[8], born in 1840^[8] and died in 1926^[8].
• Who was Claude Monet inspired by?+

  Eugène Boudin introduced Monet to painting outdoors. Johan Barthold Jongkind also influenced his early work. Monet later worked alongside Renoir and other painters who became associated with Impressionism^[8].
• How did Claude Monet paint?+

  Monet often began paintings outdoors, observing changes in light and weather. He returned to the same motif for series such as the Haystacks and Rouen Cathedral. He also revised paintings in the studio, including canvases begun in Rouen and London.
• When did Claude Monet start painting?+

  Monet first became known locally for caricatures in the late 1850s. Boudin introduced him to painting, and in 1858^[8] Monet submitted a painting to the municipal exhibition in Le Havre.
• What is Claude Monet famous for painting?+

  Claude Monet is globally recognised as a painter of colour and light. He is known for painting landscapes and seas, rivers and bridges, architecture and parks, and gardens and flowers, capturing ever-changing atmospheric conditions.
• Why did Claude Monet paint water lilies?+

  Monet painted water lilies because he was engrossed by landscapes of water and reflections. He wrote that it had become an obsession, and he wanted to reproduce what he felt.