Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

“At the age of fifteen, Claude Monet was, by his own account, one of the most successful artists in Le Havre. Crowds would gather in the Norman port city to gawk at the pictures he sold through a framing shop: not paintings of haystacks or of the sea or water lilies, but slightly cruel caricatures of local bigwigs and minor celebrities.”

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/claude-monet-caricatures/

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