Blanche Hoschedé Monet

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Blanche Hoschedé at her easel in the woods at Giverny (with Suzanne Hoschedé reading), (Claude Monet, 1887)

Blanche Hoschedé Monet is a French painter who was both the step daughter and the daughter-in law of Claude Monet. She was born in Paris on November 10, 1865 and died in Giverny on December 8, 1947.

Biography

She was the second daughter of Ernest Hoschedé and Alice Hoschedé. Ernest was a business man, a department store magnate in Paris.[1] and an art collector of impressionist paintings. In 1876, he commissioned Claude Monet to paint decorative panels in the round drawing room, in his residence, the château de Rottembourg,[2] in Montgeron. In 1877 Ernest Hoschedé, went bankrupt and his art collection was auctioned off.[3] Ernest, Alice, and their 6 children moved into a house in Vétheuil with Monet, Monet's first wife Camille, and the couple's two sons, Jean and the infant Michel. Ernest, however, spent most of his time in Paris, and eventually abandoned his family and went to Belgium. During 1879 after the death of Camille Monet, Alice Hoschedé and the 2 Monet children lived together in Paris. Eventually joining Monet in Vétheuil, and then moving with him to Poissy in 1881 and finally settling in Giverny in 1883. The relationship between Claude Monet and Alice Hoschedé developed and became official although they remained unmarried. After Ernest Hoschedé died in 1891 Claude Monet and Alice Hoschedé did marry in 1892.[4]

Blanche Hoschede Monet, House and Garden of Claude Monet,

Blanche became immediately fond of Claude Monet. She was eleven when she discovered the art of painting. Eventually she spent long hours in Claude Monet’s atelier and also in Édouard Manet’s. In 1882 Claude Monet rented a summer house in Pourville, and Blanche started to paint next to him. When Claude Monet created his series Haystacks (1890–1891) Blanche came completely under his influence. Blanche became Monet's assistant and pupil. She often carried Claude Monet’s easel, canvases on a wheel barrow, and then set up her own easel and painted nearby. She used the same canvas, the same palette, and the same colors and the same subject. Paul Durand-Ruel purchased a Haystack by Blanche Hoschedé Monet, and it currently is displayed in Claude Monet’s house in Giverny. While in Italy, Claude Monet wrote a letter to Alice Hoschedé, “Is Blanche still painting and am I going to find her in progress?”[5] Her work was done en plein air as she did not have an atelier. Claude Monet in January 1888 while in Antibes, encouraged Blanche to submit a work to the Salon.

The Hoschedé-Monet family shared a lot of time with the American Expatriates. Blanche also painted alongside John Leslie Breck (1860–1899), and Theodore Earl Butler. She had a romance with John Leslie Breck which was stopped by Claude Monet. Consequently, John Leslie Breck left Giverny in 1892 after Theodore Earl Butler’s marriage to Blanche’s sister, Suzanne Hoschedé; a marriage approved by Claude Monet.

Finally, Blanche married Claude Monet’s eldest son, Jean Monet, in 1897. They lived in Rouen and Beaumont-le-Roger until 1913. She painted landscapes such as meadows along the Risle’s river and Poplars and Pines. Upon her husband’s death in 1913 [6] she moved back to Giverny with Claude Monet in 1914. She went to Clemenceau’s House in the southern part of France in Saint- Vincent-du-Jar with Claude Monet for one week in October 1921. She returned in 1927, 1928 and 1929 and did some paintings of the he was called by the prime minister of France, Georges Clemenceau, "The Blue Angel", as she spent her time taking care of Claude Monet until his last days.

Dr. Janine Burke believes that Blanche may have assisted Monet in the painting of "Grand Decorations". Monet had trained and encouraged Blanche as an artist. In a chapter on Blanche and Monet in Source: Nature's Healing Role in Art and Writing (2009), Burke comments, "Given the sheer scale of the surfaces to be covered in the Grand Decorations, it is logical to consider Monet had an assistant, and who better than Blanche?" [7]

Most of her works were done in Giverny and around Rouen. She painted in Giverny from 1883 to 1897 and then from 1926 to 1947. She eventually decided to have a solo show at Bernheim Jeune, in 1931. She adopted an almost pure form of impressionism. She painted for her own pleasure. It is difficult to distinguish her work from Monet’s especially during her first period in Giverny. The palette, brushes, paint and canvases came from Claude Monet. She then painted Claude Monet’s garden, and its surroundings. A street in Giverny bears her name.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1927- Gallery Bernheim-Jeune Paris: Blanche Hoschedé (November 7–18, 1927)
  • 1931- Gallery Bernheim-Jeune Paris: Blanche Hoschedé Monet (March 9–20, 1931)
  • 1942- Gallery Daber, Paris: Blanche Hoschedé ( October 16- November 7, 1942)
  • 1947 Galerie d’Art Drouot Provence, Paris: Blanche Hoschedé Monet (March 14- April 14, 1947)

Exhibitions

  • Salon des Indépendants: 1905,1906,1907,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1954.
  • Salon de la Société des Artistes Rouennais : 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1931, 1932, 1933,1934,1935.
  • 1954- Galerie Zak, Paris, November 19-December 3, 1954.
  • 1928- Galerie Georges Petit., Catalogue des Oeuvres Importantes Camille Pissarro et de Tableaux, Pastels, Aquarelles, Dessins, Gouaches par Mary Cassatt, Cézanne, Duffeu, Delacroix, Guillaumin, Blanche Hoschede, Jongkind, Le Bah, Luce, Manet, Claude Monet, Piette Seurat, Signac, Sisley
  • 1957- Vernon, Blanche-Hoschedé-Monet, June 16–23, 1957.
  • 1959- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen: Blanche Hoschedé Monet, Henry Ottman, April 11-May 11, 1959.
  • 1991- AG Poulain, Vernon: Blanche Hoschedé Monet, April 6- June 2, 1991
  • 1960- Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York: Claude Monet and the Giverny Artists March 22-April 23, 1960.
  • 1988 Modern Art Museum Ibaraki, Kyoto, Fukushima: Monet and his Friends, November 1988- February 1989

Works in Museum in France

  • Toulouse-Lautrec Museum, Albi  : “Port de Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat.”
  • Musée George Clemenceau, Paris:” Garden in Giverny”; Belebat: “The Garden of Clemenceau”; Belebat: “The Garden and the House.”
  • Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris: “Along the River”; “House of Sorel-Moussel”
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen “Poplars along the River,” “Pivoines”, “Claude Monet’s Garden”
  • Musée des Augustins, Toulouse: The Garden and House of Claude Monet in Giverny
  • Musée de la Cohue, Vanne: “Le Bassin temps gris”
  • Musée A.G. Poulain, Vernon: “House of Claude Monet”;” l’Etang de Giverny”; “Beach in Normandy”,” The Cabbage”.
  • http://www.fondation-monet.fr/uk/

Movie

A movie entitled Monet, la lumière blanche is coming soon.

References

  1. ↑ MFA Boston: Street Singer by Manet.
  2. ↑ Roe, Sue, The private lives of the impressionists, p. 157, Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2006, ISBN 0-06-054558-5 ISBN 978-0-06-054558-1
  3. ↑ Heinrich, Christopher, Monet, Taschen, 2000.
  4. ↑ Blanche Hoschede Monet Exhibition organised by Sophie Fournie-Dargere
  5. ↑ Jean Pierre Hoschede, Blanche Hoschede Monet 1961
  6. ↑ Metropolitan Museum of Art
  7. ↑ Source by Janine Burke. Retrieved September 20, 2010.

Sources

  • Blanche Hoschedé Monet, Exhibition Catalogue In French by Sophie Dargere,1991.
  • Blanche Hoschedé Monet, Impressionist painter not in the shadow but in the light of Claude Monet, by Jean Pierre Hoschedé,Lecerf Rouen 1961.
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