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Claude Monet
Self-Portrait with a Beret, oil on canvas by Claude Monet, 1886; in a private collection.
Claude Monet spent the majority of his childhood on the Normandy coast, near Le Havre. When he was five years old, his family relocated to this region so his father could manage a grocery and ship-chandlering business. His formative years spent along the beaches and his exposure to the shifting coastal weather significantly influenced his later artistic vision of nature.1