1847 -1879 · Model, companion and first wife of Claude Monet

Camille Monet crosses the work of Claude Monet as an intimate model, figure of modern life and essential presence of the founding years of impressionism.

Born Camille Doncieux in 1847, Camille met Claude Monet in the 1860s and very early became his model. The Woman in the Green Dress revealed her elegance at the Salon of 1866. Their son Jean was born in 1867 and the couple married in 1870. In Argenteuil, Camille appeared in the garden, at the window, on a bench or walking with an umbrella: Monet not only seeks resemblance, but the light that passes through a dress, a veil or a landscape. The Japanese woman transforms her presence into a spectacle of color, while the portrait painted after her death in 1879 becomes a moving meditation on time and disappearance. The Japanese woman transforms her presence into a spectacle of color, while the light that passes through a dress, a veil or a landscape. The Japanese woman transforms her presence into a spectacle of color, while the light that passes through a dress, a veil or a landscape. The Japanese woman transforms her presence into a spectacle of color, while the light that passes through a dress, a veil or a landscape. The Japanese woman transforms her presence into a spectacle of color, while the light that passes through a dress, a veil or a landscape. The Japanese woman transforms her presence into a spectacle of color, while the light that the Umbrella turned to the left - Claude Monet and The Woman with the Umbrella - Madame Monet and her son. His reading favors the story.

From the green dress to the last portrait, Camille accompanies Monet's transition from the figure of Salon to a painting where light, movement and private life become inseparable.