Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926) was a French painter who inadvertently named Impressionism, when a title was quickly needed for one of his paintings in an 1874 exhibition. Monet named it simply “Impression” but the show’s curator, Eduoard Renoir added the explanatory “Sunrise” to the painting’s title. Throughout his long and prolific career, Monet was known for his nature landscapes, and paintings of Paris and the Normandy coast.
