Q 01/05

Monet was born in 1840 in which city, before the family moved to Le Havre?

A) Paris

B) Rouen

C) Lyon

D) Bordeaux

Answer · why

A) Paris

He was born on the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte and baptised Oscar-Claude; his parents called him Oscar.

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) Medical school

Answer · why

C) The family grocery business

His mother, a singer, backed his ambitions; she died in 1857 when he was sixteen.

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 Le Havre newspaper

Answer · why

B) Drawing caricatures of acquaintances

He started at 15 and had saved around 2,000 francs from his drawings by the time he reached Paris.

Q 04/05

Which painter, met around 1858, taught Monet to paint outdoors and was called by him 'my master'?

A) Johan Jongkind

B) Camille Corot

C) Gustave Courbet

D) Eugène Boudin

Answer · why

D) Eugène Boudin

Monet said he owed him everything; the Dutch painter Jongkind became a second mentor in 1862.

Q 05/05

Monet's widowed, wealthy aunt, who supported his early career, was named what?

A) Louise Aubrée

B) Camille Doncieux

C) Alice Hoschedé

D) Marie-Jeanne Lecadre

Answer · why

D) Marie-Jeanne Lecadre

She later paid 3,025 francs to buy him out of the army after he caught typhoid.