ocr: MONET, Claude Oscar (1840-1926), French impressionist painter, who brought the study of the transient efrects of natural light to its most refined expression (see IMPRESSIONISM). Monet was born on Nov. 14, 1840, in Paris, but he in. a Boat spent most of his childhood in Le Havre. There, in his teens, he studied drawing, he also painted seascapes out-of-doors with the French painter Eugène Louis Boudin. By 1859 Monet had committed himself to a career as ana artist and began to spend as much time 1n Paris as possible. During the 1860s he was associated with the preimpressionist painter Edouard M ...
