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Oscar Claude Monet born
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school of learning
1851- 1857 attends school and learning to draw -
becomes well known for caricature drawing.
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moves to Paris to study painting, hoping to earn money as a newspaper caricaturist
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begins large seascape paintings. Many financial debts incurred
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Wins silver medal for paintings. Works refused to be shown by Peers at the Salon
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Ten works included in an Exposition Internationale in Paris.
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Forty nine works shown in New York exhibition.
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Begins his famous Haystacks series.
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Buys house and property at Giverny and starts improvements on the garden and ponds. This will become his passion in later years.
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begins earliest studies of Water lilies paintings.
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Paints Water Garden canvases.
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temporary loss of sight in one eye
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Begins painting the Water Lilies series.
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Works on scenes from memory
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Bad eye and health problems
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Forty eight Water Lilies pictures exhibited
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Eyesight deteriorates. Cataracts diagnosed
The Water Lilies murals are officially dedicated and currently hang in the Orangerie in the Louvre, Paris. -
Begins work on mural-sized versions of Water Lilies
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Builds new studio to accommodate large mural canvases.
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donates 12 Large Water Lilies paintings to the state
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delays delivery of murals to the state with a final attempt to complete them satisfactorily
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Claude Monet dies.
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The Water Lilies murals are officially dedicated and currently hang in the Orangerie in the Louvre, Paris.