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Blanche Hoschedé Monet is a French painter who was the step daughter and daughter in law of Claude Monet. She was born in Paris, November 10, 1865. She died in Giverny in 1947. She was the second daughter of Ernest Hoschedé and Alice Hoschedé. Ernest was a business man but also an art collector of impressionist paintings. In 1876, he asked Claude Monet to paint the round drawing room at the Chateau de Rottembourg at Montgeron. Two years later Ernest Hoschedé, went bankrupt. He fled to Paris. The Hoschedé and Monet families moved to Vétheuil, during that period Camille (Claude Monet’s spouse) died in 1879. The relationship between Claude Monet and Alice Hoschedé became official. They moved to Poissy in 1881 and finally settled in Giverny in 1883. Claude Monet married Alice Hoschedé in 1892.[1]

Blanche became immediately fond of Claude Monet. She was eleven when she discovered the art of painting. She spent long hours in Claude Monet’s atelier but also in Manet’s. Claude Monet rented a summer house in Pourville, (summer of 1882) and Blanche started to paint next to him. The subject of Grainstack (1890-1891) is associated with Claude Monet and therefore Impressionism. During that time Blanche is completely under the influence of Claude Monet. Blanche became Monet's assistant and pupil . She often carried Claude Monet’s easel, canvases on a wheel barrow, and then set her own easel and painted She is not only using the same canvas but also the same palette, the same colors. She painted next to him. We are tempted to say that the student has reached the master. Durand Ruel purchased a Grainstack by Blanche Hoschedé Monet. This Grainstack is presently hanging in Claude Monet’s House in Giverny. . While in Italy, Claude Monet wrote a letter to Alice Hoschedé, “Is Blanche still painting and am I going to find her in progress?”[2] Her work was done en plein air as she did not have an atelier. Claude Monet in January 1888 while in Antibes, had encouraged Blanche to submit a work to the Salon. The Hoschedé Monet family shared a lot of moments within the American Expatriates. Blanche also painted alongside with John Leslie Breck and Theodore Earl Butler. She had a romance with John Leslie Breck which was halted by Claude Monet. Consequently, John Leslie Breck left Giverny in 1892 after Theodore Earl Butler’s marriage to Blanche’s sister, Suzanne Hoschedé; a marriage approved by Claude Monet.

Finally, Blanche married Claude Monet’s eldest son, Jean Monet, in 1897. They lived in Rouen and Beaumont-le-Roger until 1913. She painted landscapes such as meadows along the Risle’s river but also Poplars and Pines. Upon her husband’s death in 1914, she moved back to Giverny with Claude Monet. She went to Clemenceau’s House in the southern part of France in Saint- Vincent-du-Jar with Claude Monet for one week in October of 1921. She returned in 1927, 1928 and 1929 and did some paintings of the house, garden and the sea. She was called by the prime minister of France, Georges Clemenceau, "The Blue Angel", as she spent her time taking care of Claude Monet until his last days.

Blanche gave up painting until after Claude Monet’s death. Most of her works were done in Giverny and around Rouen. She painted in Giverny from 1883 to 1897 and then from 1926 to 1947. She eventually decided to have a solo show at Bernheim Jeune, in 1931. She adopted an almost pure form of impressionism. She painted for her own pleasure. At times it was difficult to distinguish her work from Monet’s especially during her first period in Giverny. The palette, brushes, paint and canvases came from Claude Monet. She then painted Claude Monet’s garden, and its surroundings. A street in Giverny bears her name.

Solo Exhibitions

  • 1927- Gallery Bernheim-Jeune Paris: Blanche Hoschedé (November 7-18 1927)
  • 1931- Gallery Bernheim-Jeune Paris: Blanche Hoschedé Monet (March 9-20 1931)
  • 1942- Gallery Daber, Paris: Blanche Hoschedé ( October 16- November 7, 1942)
  • 1947 Galerie d’Art Drouot Provence, Paris: Blanche Hoschedé Monet (March 14- April 14, 1947)

Exhibitions

  • Salon des Indépendants: 1905,1906,1907,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1954.
  • Salon de la Société des Artistes Rouennais : 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1931, 1932, 1933,1934,1935.
  • 1954- Galerie Zak, Paris, November 19-December 3, 1954.
  • 1957- Vernon, Blanche-Hoschedé-Monet, June 16-23 1957.
  • 1959- Museum in Rouen: Blanche Hoschedé Monet, Henry Ottman, April 11-May 11, 1959.
  • 1991- AG Poulain, Vernon: Blanche Hoschedé Monet, April 6- June 2, 1991
  • 1960- Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New-York: Claude Monet and the Giverny Artists March 22-April 23, 1960.
  • 1988 Modern Art Museum Ibaraki, Kyoto, Fukushima: Monet and his Friends, November 1988- February 1989

==Works in Museum in France==[3]

  • Toulouse-Lautrec Museum, Albi  : “Port de Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat.”
  • Musée Clemenceau, Paris:” Garden in Giverny”; Belebat: “The Garden of Clemenceau”; Belebat: “The Garden and the House.”
  • Marmottan Museum, Paris: “Along the River”; “House of Sorel-Moussel”
  • Musée de Rouen: “Poplars along the River,” “Pivoines”, “Claude Monet’s Garden”
  • Musée des Augustins, Toulouse: The Garden and House of Claude Monet in Giverny
  • Musée de la Cohue, Vanne: “Le Bassin temps gris”
  • Musée A.G. Poulain, Vernon: “House of Claude Monet”;” l’Etang de Giverny”; “Beach in Normandy”,” The Cabbage”.
  • Foundation Claude Monet in Giverny
Patrick Bertrand 18:13, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

References

  1. ^ Blanche Hoschede Monet Exhibition organised by Sophie Fournie-Dargere
  2. ^ Jean Pierre Hoschede, Blanche Hoschede Monet 1961
  3. ^ base de donnee la Joconde
  • Blanche Hoschede Monet, Exhibition Catalogue In French,by Sophie Dargere
  • Blanche Hochede Monet by Jean Pierre Hoschede

External links

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