Monet’s Stepdaughter Also Painted Masterpieces
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Few names are as evocative as Claude Monet, the French artist who came to define the Impressionist movement. But there was more than one Monet.
Known as the “forgotten Monet,” Blanche Hoschedé-Monet created roughly 300 fabulous Impressionist paintings. She’s now getting her first-ever solo exhibition in the United States, and hopefully will finally get the recognition she deserves.
Most of her work is in private hands. The Musée d’Orsay, which boasts the largest collection of Impressionist art in the world, has only two of her paintings. American public collections have only one, while British public collections don’t have any. Aside from the Musée Blanche Hoschedé-Monet, a regional museum in Vernon, France, recently renamed in her honour, her paintings are largely unknown.
However, things may be about to change, as the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University is staging Blanche Hoschedé-Monet in the Light, the first solo exhibition of Hoschedé-Monet’s work in the U.S. It runs until 15 June 2025.
“While Impressionism (and certainly Claude Monet) may be well-known, few recognize the achievements of Blanche Hoschedé-Monet,” Haley Pierce, a curator at the museum, says in a statement. “It is my hope that this exhibition contributes to an expanding narrative of this important artist and period in the history of modern art.”
Hoschedé-Monet was born in 1865 to Alice and Ernest Hoschedé, a wealthy Parisian businessman and art collector who counted himself among Impressionism’s leading supporters. It was Hoschedé who bought Monet’s Impression, Sunrise (1872), the painting that inspired the movement’s name.