Q 01/05

Monet grew up on the Normandy coast, but in which city was he born in 1840?

A) Paris

B) Rouen

C) Lyon

D) Bordeaux

Answer · why

A) Paris

Paris. The family left when he was five for the Normandy coast, where the beaches and fast-changing weather of his childhood shaped the way he would l...

Q 02/05

What did Monet's father want him to go into instead of art?

A) The legal profession

B) The merchant navy

C) The family grocery business

D) The medical profession

Answer · why

C) The family grocery business

The family grocery business, which also supplied ships in port. His mother, a trained singer, took his side over art, but she died in 1857.

Q 03/05

How did the teenage Monet first earn money from art?

A) Painting shop signs

B) Drawing caricatures of acquaintances

C) Copying old masters for tourists

D) Illustrating a local newspaper

Answer · why

B) Drawing caricatures of acquaintances

Drawing caricatures of acquaintances. He started at 15, and at up to 20 francs a sheet they sold well enough to give him real savings by the time he l...

Q 04/05

Which Normandy seascape painter persuaded the teenage Monet to try painting outdoors?

A) Johan Jongkind

B) Camille Corot

C) Gustave Courbet

D) Eugène Boudin

Answer · why

D) Eugène Boudin

Eugène Boudin. Monet's life as a painter began with their outings, and in 1874 the older man hung his own work beside his former pupil's at the first ...

Q 05/05

Who are the woman and boy in Monet's Woman with a Parasol?

A) A patron's wife and child

B) His sister and nephew

C) His wife and son

D) A neighbour and her son

Answer · why

C) His wife and son

His wife and son: Camille and seven-year-old Jean, caught from below on a windy summer walk. About a decade later he painted the pose twice more, with...