Claude Monet - Leon Monet Ceramic Tile

Portrait of Léon Monet (Portrait de Léon Monet), 1874 - Claude Monet, oil on canvas. Claude Monet (Paris, 1840 - Giverny, 1926) was a French Impressionist painter. The sitter was Monet's elder brother Léon, a color chemist, Rouen industrialist and important early supporter of the Impressionists. In 1872 Léon founded the Société Industrielle de Rouen and began actively collecting works by Claude and his friends. Claude's energetic 1874 portrait therefore records more than a family likeness: it represents a brother whose professional life was also centered on modern color. The painting was shown to the public for the first time in a major exhibition devoted to Léon in 2023 and entered a public collection the following year.