Private Collection The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles described a day trip to Giverny in summer 1905, to visit the home of artist Claude Monet. The painter wore “a suit made of some tweedy ...

Paintings of women by Monet Claude Monet, the master painter who invented and forwarded ‘Impressionism’, one of the most soft and beautiful art genres, is a man who will be remembered forever.

Blanche Hoschedé-Monet has barely been acknowledged in art history. But not only did she help her stepfather Claude, she created her own fine works – often of the same scenes as him. Haystack ...