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Claude Monet (French pronounced [klod mɔnɛ]) also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926)[1] was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.[2] The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise.

Birth name Claude = Oscar Monet
Born = November 14, 1840(1840-11-14)Paris, France
Died = 5 December 1926 (aged 86) Giverny, France
Nationality = French
Field = Painter
Movement = Impressionism
Works = Impression, SunriseRouen Cathedral seriesLondon Parliament seriesWater LiliesHaystacks