3432113 France: Claude Monet (1840 - 1926), portrait by Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon, 1820 - 1910), 1899 by Nadar, (Gaspard Felix Tournachon) (1820-1910); (add.info.: Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 ? 5 December 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement\'s philosophy of expressing one\'s perceptions before nature, especially as applied to "plein-air" landscape painting. The term \'Impressionism\' is derived from the title of his painting "Impression, soleil levant" (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.); Pictures from History; French, out of copyright.