Claude Monet
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Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career,
Monet c. 1899
The Woman in the Green Dress, Camille Doncieux, 1866, Kunsthalle Bremen
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (right-hand section), 1865–1866, Paris, with Gustave Courbet, Frédéric Bazille and Camille Doncieux, first wife of the artist, Musée d'Orsay
Three Cows Grazing, 1868, pastel on paper
Édouard Manet
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Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
Portrait photograph by Nadar, c. 1866–1867
Manet, Edouard 05 1832 1883 Signature
Édouard Manet by Henri Fantin-Latour (1867), Art Institute of Chicago
Music in the Tuileries, 1862