The family worked and built up the gardens and Monet's fortunes began to change for the better as his dealer Paul Durand-Ruel had increasing success in selling his paintings. The house was close enough to the local schools for the children to attend and the surrounding landscape offered an endless array of suitable motifs for Monet's work. There was a barn that doubled as a painting studio, orchards and a small garden. ![]() The house was situated near the main road between the towns of Vernon and Gasny at Giverny. Following the death of her estranged husband, Alice Hoschedé married Claude Monet in 1892.Īt the beginning of May 1883, Monet and his large family rented a house and two acres from a local landowner. In April 1883 they moved to Vernon, then to a house in Giverny, Eure, in Upper Normandy, where he planted a large garden where he painted for much of the rest of his life. From the doorway of the little train between Vernon and Gasny he discovered Giverny. In 1881 all of them moved to Poissy which Monet hated. In the spring of 1880 Alice Hoschedé and all the children left Paris and rejoined Monet still living in the house in Vétheuil. They were Blanche, Germaine, Suzanne, Marthe, Jean-Pierre, and Jacques. After her husband (Ernest Hoschedé) became bankrupt, and left in 1878 for Belgium, in September 1879, and while Monet continued to live in the house in Vétheuil Alice Hoschedé helped Monet to raise his two sons, Jean and Michel, by taking them to Paris to live alongside her own six children. ![]() Both families then shared a house in Vétheuil during the summer. In 1878 the Monets temporarily moved into the home of Ernest Hoschedé, (1837-1891), a wealthy department store owner and patron of the arts.
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