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What year did Claude Monet die and what was the cause?
Claude Monet
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The Rouen Cathedral series was painted in the 1890s by French impressionist Claude Monet. The paintings in the series each capture the façade of the cathedral at different times of the day and year, and reflect changes in its appearance under different lighting conditions. 
Blanche Hoschedé Monet is a French painter who was both the step daughter and the daughter-in law of Claude Monet. She was born in Paris on November 10, 1865 and died in Giverny on December 8, 1947. 
When Monet traveled to Paris to visit the Louvre, he witnessed painters copying from the old masters. Having brought his paints and other tools with him, he would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw. Monet was in Paris for several years and met other young painters, including Édouard Manet and others who would become friends and fellow Impressionists. In June 1861, Monet joined the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry in Algeria for a seven-year commitment, but, two years later, after he had contracted typhoid fever, his aunt intervened to get him out of the army if he agreed to complete an art course at an art school. It is possible that the Dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind, whom Monet knew, may have prompted his aunt on this matter. Disillusioned with the traditional art taught at art schools, in 1862 Monet became a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille and Alfred Sisley. Together they shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light "en plein air" with broken color and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism. In January 1865 Monet was working on a version of "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe", aiming to present it for hanging at the Salon, which had rejected Manet's "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe" two years earlier. Monet's painting was very large and could not be completed in time. (It was later cut up, with parts now in different galleries.) Monet submitted instead a painting of "Camille" or "The Woman in the Green Dress" ("La femme à la robe verte"), one of many works using his future wife, Camille Doncieux as his model. This painting and a small landscape both were both hung. The following year Monet used Camille for his model in "Women in the Garden", and "On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt" in 1868. Camille became pregnant and gave birth to their first child, Jean, in 1867. Monet and Camille married on 28 June 1870, just before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, and, after their excursion to London and Zaandam, they moved to Argenteuil, in December 1871. During this time Monet painted various works of modern life. He and Camille lived in poverty for most of this period. Following the successful exhibition of some maritime paintings, and the winning of a silver medal at Le Havre, Monet's paintings were seized by creditors, from whom they were bought back by a shipping merchant, Gaudibert, who was also a patron of Boudin. 
In 1884 Robinson returned to France where he lived for the next eight years, visiting America only occasionally. Robinson gravitated to Giverny, which had become a center of French impressionist art under the influence of Claude Monet. Historians are unclear when Robinson met Monet, but by 1888 their friendship was enough for Robinson to move in next door to the famous impressionist. Robinson's art shifted to a more traditional impressionistic manner during this time, likely due to Monet's influence. While a number of American artists had gathered at Giverny, none were as close to Monet as Robinson. Monet offered advice to Robinson, and he likewise solicited Robinson for opinions on Monet's own works in progress. Not only did he take to heart Monet´s theoretical admonitions and his requirement to portray the beauties and mystery of nature in a manner stringently truthful to one's personal vision, but he also studied works that were available to him in "The Master´s" studio. For instance, "Capri", painted in 1890, was probably inspired by Monet´s paintings of the cliffs at Varengeville, Pourville, and Etretat and the rocks at Bell-Ile of the early 1880s. At Giverny, Robinson painted what art historians regard as some of his finest works. These depicted the surrounding countryside in different weather, in the plein air tradition, sometimes with women shown in leisurely poses. An example of his mature work during this period is "La Débâcle" (1892) in the collection of Scripps College, Claremont California. 
She was the second daughter of Ernest Hoschedé and Alice Hoschedé. Ernest was a business man, a department store magnate in Paris. and an art collector of impressionist paintings. In 1876, he commissioned Claude Monet to paint decorative panels in the round drawing room, in his residence, the "château de Rottembourg", in Montgeron. In 1877 Ernest Hoschedé, went bankrupt and his art collection was auctioned off. Ernest, Alice, and their 6 children moved into a house in Vétheuil with Monet, Monet's first wife Camille, and the couple's two sons, Jean and the infant Michel. Ernest, however, spent most of his time in Paris, and eventually abandoned his family and went to Belgium. During 1879 after the death of Camille Monet, Alice Hoschedé and the 2 Monet children lived together in Paris. Eventually joining Monet in Vétheuil, and then moving with him to Poissy in 1881 and finally settling in Giverny in 1883. The relationship between Claude Monet and Alice Hoschedé developed and became official although they remained unmarried. After Ernest Hoschedé died in 1891 Claude Monet and Alice Hoschedé did marry in 1892. Blanche became immediately fond of Claude Monet. She was eleven when she discovered the art of painting. Eventually she spent long hours in Claude Monet’s atelier and also in Édouard Manet’s. In 1882 Claude Monet rented a summer house in Pourville, and Blanche started to paint next to him. When Claude Monet created his series "Haystacks (1890–1891)" Blanche came completely under his influence. Blanche became Monet's assistant and pupil. She often carried Claude Monet’s easel, canvases on a wheel barrow, and then set up her own easel and painted nearby. She used the same canvas, the same palette, and the same colors and the same subject. Paul Durand-Ruel purchased a Haystack by Blanche Hoschedé Monet, and it currently is displayed 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?” Her work was done en plein air as she did not have an atelier. Claude Monet in January 1888 while in Antibes, encouraged Blanche to submit a work to the Salon. The Hoschedé-Monet family shared a lot of time with the "American Expatriates". Blanche also painted alongside John Leslie Breck (1860–1899), and Theodore Earl Butler. She had a romance with John Leslie Breck which was stopped 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 and Poplars and Pines. Upon her husband’s death in 1913 she moved back to Giverny with Claude Monet in 1914. 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 1921. She returned in 1927, 1928 and 1929 and did some paintings of the he 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. Janine Burke believes that Blanche may have assisted Monet in the painting of "Grand Decorations". Monet had trained and encouraged Blanche as an artist. In a chapter on Blanche and Monet in "Source: Nature's Healing Role in Art and Writing" (2009), Burke comments, "Given the sheer scale of the surfaces to be covered in the Grand Decorations, it is logical to consider Monet had an assistant, and who better than Blanche?" 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. It is 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. 