Blanche Hoschede-Monet (1865

Blanche Hoschede-Monet (1865-1947)
Snapdragon
Oil on canvas signed lower left
23.62 x 28.74 inch
Blanche was one of Ernest Hoschédé's daughter, an educated collector of Monet's works. Through her father's
friendship with this famous painter, Blanche joined very early the studio of the master, before becoming his
assistant. Strongly influenced by his pictorial touch, it is sometime difficult to distinguish Monet's paintings from
Blanche Hoschédé's one's.
The young woman had a true passion for painting and she met Claude Monet at the age of eleven. She said " I saw
Claude Monet for the first time in 1876. I was eleven but I am rememerbing very well his arrival at Montgeron, at
my parents home, where he had been announced as a great artist with long hair. This strikes me and I immediately
felt sympathies for him... "
This is in a house rent by Monet in the summer that Blanche began to paint near him. She met there Jean Monet,
the painter's son, who married her in 1897.
Nature is Blanche Hoschédé Monet's most inspiration. She used to paint fields along the Risle river, with its
poplars and pines. Most of her artworks were executed outside, in Giverny and around Rouen where she settled
with her husband. She distinguished herself by a pure Impressionism. She had many personal exhibitions in
Rouen, as well as at the Société des Amis des Arts in 1903, at the 37th Fine Art Municipal Exhibition in 1906 and at
the Société des Artistes from Rouen too.
After the death of Claude Monet in December 1926, Blanche Hoschédé lived in Giverny and her style changed
little by little and became less impressionnist. Then she painted more flowers and still life, showing her own
personality in her art over time. A specific feminity emerged from her paintings, through a radiant and creamy
treatment of light.
From 1927 to 2009, many exhibitions of this artist took place in France and worldwide.
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Museums
BlancheHoschédé -Monet, Sophie Fourny Dargère, Musée Municipal Alphonse Georges Poulain
Blache Hoschédé-Monet, 1865-1947, une artiste de Giverny, Musée Municipal, 1991
Jean Pierre Hoschédé, Blanche Hoschédé-Monet peintre impressioniste, Lecerf, 1961
Dominique Lobstein, Les Impressionnistes, Le Cavalier Bleu, 2007
Philippe Piguet, Blanche Hoschédé-Monet, un destin impressioniste, Editions Points de vue, Rouen, Musée de
Louvière, 2010
Bibliography
Musée Toulouse Lautrec d'Albi
Fondation Claude Monet de Giverny
Musée Georges Clemenceau de Paris
Musée Marmottant-Claude Monet de Paris
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
Musée des Augustins de Toulouse
Musée de la Cohue (Vannes)
Musée Municipal A .G Poulain (Vernon)
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