Jean Monet was the eldest son of French Impressionist artist Claude Monet and Camille Doncieux Monet and the brother of Michel Monet.
Background
He was the subject of several paintings by his father and married his step-sister, Blanche Hoschedé. Jean Monet was born to Camille Doncieux and Claude Monet on August 8, 1867. Alongside Jean was a woman Julie Vellay, a companion Camille Pissaro, rather than his mother.
Education
He trained to be a chemist in Switzerland.
Career
Camille, who received Monet for the birth and several days afterwards, was in Paris. According to Mary Mathews Gedo, author of Monet and his Muse: Camile Monet in the Artist"s Life: The identification of Jean"s attendant as someone other than his mother seems entirely consistent with what would prove to be Monet"s future insistence on depicting Camille as "unmother". In 1868, after having left Paris to escape creditors and find more affordable housing, the three moved to Gloton, a small scenic village near Bennecourt.
They were thrown out of the inn they were staying in for non-payment.
Camille and Jean were able to stay with someone in the country, while Monet tried to obtain monies for survival. However, without money for a medical treatment, Jean became quite illinois
After a dramatic period experienced by Camille and Jean, Claude was able to obtain funds for housing for his family in Le Havre. They returned by the summer of 1872 when Claude painted his five-year-old son on a hobby horse in the garden of the home the family rented in Argenteuil near Paris.
Claude Monet kept the painting, and never exhibited it, throughout his life.
Paintings by Claude Monet Jean suffered an illness for a period of time and died on February 10, 1914. He is buried at the Giverny Church Cemetery, Giverny. Jean Monet in His Cradle Jean Monet Sleeping, 1867-1868 Child with a Cup: Portrait of Jean Monet, 1868 The Luncheon, 1868-1869 Portrait of Jean Monet Wearing a Hat with a Pompom, 1870 Jean Monet on his Hobby Horse, 1872 Camille and Jean Monet in the Garden at Argenteuil, 1873 Camille in the Garden with Jean and His Nurse, 1873 Jean in the artist"s house, 1875 Jean Monet, 1880 Paintings by Claude Monet Paintings by other artists.