Editing Claude Monet (section)

=== Exile and Argenteuil ===
[[File:Carolus-Duran - Portrait de Claude Monet - Musée Marmottan Monet.jpg|thumb|''Portrait of Claude Monet'', Carolus-Duran, {{Circa|1867}}]]
He married Camille on 28 June 1870, just before the outbreak of the [[Franco-Prussian War]].<ref name="Stuckey">Charles Stuckey "Monet, a Retrospective", Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 195</ref> During the war, he and his family lived in London and the Netherlands to avoid [[conscription]].<ref name=":11" />{{sfn|Brettell|Hayes Tucker|Henderson Lee|2009|pp=63}} Monet and [[Charles-François Daubigny]] lived in self-imposed [[exile]].{{sfn|Brettell|Hayes Tucker|Henderson Lee|2009|pp=63}}{{efn-ua|{{harvnb|Khan|Thornes|Baker|Olson|Doescher|2010}} conversely describes the exile as forceful.}} While living in London, Monet met his old friend Pissarro and the American painter [[James Abbott McNeill Whistler]], and befriended his first and primary [[art dealer]], [[Paul Durand-Ruel]], an encounter that would be decisive for his career. There he saw and admired the works of [[John Constable]] and [[J. M. W. Turner]] and was impressed by Turner's treatment of light, especially in the works depicting the fog on the [[River Thames|Thames]].<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":11" /><ref name="Bellet">{{cite news| url = https://www.lemonde.fr/arts/article/2018/07/13/les-impressionnistes-peintres-francais-tapis-dans-londres_5330664_1655012.html| title = Henry Bellet, ''Les Impressionnistes, ces peintres français tapis dans Londres'', 13 July 2018| newspaper = Le Monde.fr| date = 13 July 2018| access-date = 2 June 2021| archive-date = 2 June 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210602215834/https://www.lemonde.fr/arts/article/2018/07/13/les-impressionnistes-peintres-francais-tapis-dans-londres_5330664_1655012.html| url-status = live}}</ref><ref name="Lobstein">Dominique Lobstein, ''Monet'', Éditions Jean-Paul Gisserot, 2002, pp. 38, 106-107</ref> He repeatedly painted the Thames, [[Hyde Park, London|Hyde Park]] and [[Green Park]].<ref name=":11" /> In the spring of 1871, his works were refused authorisation for inclusion in the Royal Academy exhibition and police suspected him of revolutionary activities.<ref>The texts of seven police reports, written on 2 June – 9 October 1871 are included in ''Monet in Holland'', the catalog of an exhibition in the Amsterdam [[Van Gogh Museum]] (1986).</ref><ref name="Stuckey" /> That same year he learned of his father's death.<ref name=":4" />

The family moved to [[Argenteuil]] in 1871, where he, influenced by his time with Dutch painters, mostly painted the [[Seine]]'s surrounding area.<ref name="House" />{{sfn|Brettell|Hayes Tucker|Henderson Lee|2009|pp=66}} He acquired a sailboat to paint on the river.<ref name=":4" /> In 1874, he signed a six-and-a-half year lease and moved into a newly built "rose-colored house with green shutters" in Argenteuil, where he painted fifteen paintings of his garden from a [[Panoramic painting|panoramic]] perspective.<ref name="House" />{{Sfn|Bailey|Rishel|Rosenthal|1989|pp=52}} Paintings such as ''Gladioli'' marked what was likely the first time Monet had cultivated a garden for the purpose of his art.<ref name="House" /> The house and garden became the "single most important" motif of his final years in Argenteuil.{{Sfn|Bailey|Rishel|Rosenthal|1989|pp=52}} For the next four years, he painted mostly in Argenteuil and took an interest in the colour theories of chemist [[Michel Eugène Chevreul]].<ref name=":4" /> For three years of the decade, he rented a large villa in [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]] for a thousand francs per year. ''Camille Monet on a Garden Bench'' displays the garden of the villa, and what some have argued to be Camille's grief upon learning of her father's death.{{Sfn|Bailey|Rishel|Rosenthal|1989|pp=46-48}}

Monet and Camille were often in financial straits during this period—they were unable to pay their hotel bill during the summer of 1870 and likely lived on the outskirts of London as a result of insufficient funds. An inheritance from his father, together with sales of his paintings, did, however, enable them to hire two servants and a gardener by 1872.<ref name=":8" /><ref>Poulet, Anne L.; Murphy, Alexandra R. (1979). ''Corot to Braque: French Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston''. Boston: The Museum. p. 92. {{ISBN|0-87846-134-5}}.</ref><ref>Fourny-Dargère, Sophie, and Claude Monet (1992). ''Monet''. New York: Konecky and Konecky. pp. 58, 64. {{ISBN|9781568522487}}.</ref> Following the successful exhibition of some maritime paintings and the winning of a silver medal at Le Havre, Monet's paintings were seized by creditors, from whom they were bought back by a shipping merchant, Gaudibert, who was also a patron of Boudin.<ref name="Stuckey11">Charles F. Stuckey, pp. 11–16</ref>