Claude Monet
...édéric Bazille. Bazille gave Monet regular financial support during the time he was there. In 1865, Monet had his first works accepted by the Salon, a juried art exhibition sponsored annually by the official French Academy of Fine Arts. Monet's canvases from the mid-1860s were massive. After the Salon rejected Women in the Garden for its 1867 show, Monet reconsidered investing so much effort in a single painting that might not sell, and he began to work on a smaller scale. In 1869, Monet and Renoir painted a series of outdoor landscapes at a fashionable bathing place on the Seine River near Paris. Monet's quick strokes of fresh colors suitably capture the movement of the water and cheerfulness of the scene. Monet painted numerous vibrant, light-filled views of this fast-growing suburban town. He...