Camille on her deathbed
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Camille Doncieux
First wife of Claude Monet (1847–1879)
Camille-Léonie Doncieux (French pronunciation:[kamijleɔnidɔ̃sjø]; 15 January 1847 – 5 September 1879) was the first wife of French painter Claude Monet, with whom she had two sons. She was the subject of a number of paintings by Monet, as well as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Édouard Manet.
Early life
Camille-Léonie Doncieux was born in the town of La Guillotiere, later merged into Lyons, France, on 15 January 1847. Her parents were Leonie-Françoise (née Manéchalle) Doncieux and Charles Claude Doncieux, who was a merchant.[1][2] The family moved to Paris, near the Sorbonne, early in the Second French Empire (1852-1870). A few years after the birth of a second child, Geneviève-François, in 1857, the family moved to Batignolles, which became part of northwestern Paris. Batignolles was popular with artists.[2]
While in her teens, Doncieux began work as a model. She met Monet, seven years her senior, in 1865 and became his model posing for numerous paintings. They live
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Camille Monet on Her Deathbed, 1879 by Claude Monet
Camille on Her Deathbed, 1879 is one of Monet’s most powerful paintings of his wife, if not the most poignant; the canvas captures a real tenderness and unwavering love between Camille and Claude. Towards the end of her life, Camille suffered greatly from dyspepsia and other medical complications that followed the birth of her children. She died at the age of 32, leaving Monet in a state of immense grief which he channeled into a complex piece of art.
Camille was the first wife of French painter Claude Monet. She was the subject of a number of paintings by Monet, as well as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Édouard Manet. She was mother to two sons with Monet. Camille and Monet were married on 28 June 1870. Camille-Léonie Doncieux was around eighteen when she met and fell in love with Claude Monet, leaving her fine home to live with the talented 25-year-old painter who could not sell his work. When she bore his child both her family and his disowned them.
In 1877 Camille gave birth to her second son, Michel. Soon Camille's hea
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Monet and Camille
14 November 1840
Oscar-Claude Monet is born in Paris.
Around 1845
The family moves to Le Havre.
1858
At the age of 18, Monet meets the landscape painter Eugène Boudin who encourages him to start painting. One of his first landscape paintings is shown in a municipal exhibition of Le Havre. Monet decides to become a painter.
1859
Monet moves to Paris and gets in touch with various artists.
1860
Monet joins the independent Académie Suisse and visits exhibitions of the Barbizon painters.
April 1861
Monet is called up for seven years of military service which he breaks off after one year, however, on account of typhoid fever.
1862–63
Monet returns to Le Havre to recover. There, he meets the Dutch marine painter Johan Barthold Jongkind with whom he does outdoor landscape studies.
At the request of his aunt, who supports him financially, Monet continues his education as a painter in the studio of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where his future fellow Impressionist painters Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Fréd&eac
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