Michel Monet was the second son of Claude Monet and Camille Doncieux Monet.
Michel Monet au bonnet à pompon. Oil on canvas, Claude Monet, 1880, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Le jardin de Monet à Vétheuil, with Michel Monet and Jean-Pierre Hoschedé. Oil on canvas, Claude Monet, 1880. National Gallery of Art, Washington
Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, exhibited in 1874 initiated by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon.
Monet c. 1899
The Woman in the Green Dress, Camille Doncieux, 1866, Kunsthalle Bremen
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (right 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