Combining love and art
Can you hear the wedding bells?
Monet married his first wife Camille on June 28, 1870!
The couple had a small civil-ceremony in Paris with painter Gustave Courbet was a witness. Only Camille's parents we're in attendance, Monet's family didn't approve of their relationship. The couple had a baby at the time, their first son Jean - and they honeymooned at Trouville-sur-Mer.
Monet was head-over-heels for Camille and she was the subject of many of his paintings, including...