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Monet met 19-year-old Camille in 1865 and she became his muse, model, and partner in crime. Just months after she moved in with him, they fled their new home to escape creditors. The young couple did this several times.

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 5h

Cart on the Snow Covered Road with Saint-Simeon Farm - 1865/1867 botfrens.com/collections/41/content…

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

German guns were within earshot of Giverny. Monet's household scattered, but he stayed, preferring to share his garden's fate. What he painted through those years includes Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows — a mourning tree, seen only in water.

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

In the Dutch tulip fields, Monet was astonished by the colors. “I could never have believed that such colours existed,” he said in admiration.

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The Japanis Bridge (Footbridge over the Water-Lily Pond) - 1918/1924 botfrens.com/collections/41/content…

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

In 1861, Monet was drafted to Algeria, where the light and hot colour astonished him. He said later that the impressions he took there "contained the germ of my future researches" — though nothing he painted in Algeria survives.

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

At Vétheuil, Monet lost his wife Camille and nearly lost his home. Yet from grief and financial ruin came beauty—soft river light, frozen winters, fragile hope.