In Springtime (Claude Monet), how is the History discussed?
In this painting, Claude Monet uses his first wife, Camille Doncieux, as the model.  Camille and Claude Monet were married in 1870. Before this time, she had been his mistress and served as a model for Monet's figurative paintings of the 1860s and 1870s.  It is said that Camille possessed unusual talent as a model and was also used by Auguste Renoir and Édouard Manet.Late in the year 1871, Monet and his family settled in Argenteuil, a village Northwest of Paris.  The village was a popular resort for urban pleasure-seekers.  Colleagues of Monet frequently joined him and the village became associated with Impressionism.  In the spring of 1872, Monet painted a number of canvases in his garden, often showing Camille and Alfred Sisley's companion, Adélaïde-Eugénie Lescouezec.Springtime was on display at an exhibition organized by the Impressionists at Durand Ruel's Paris Gallery, from March 30 to April 30, 1876.  Monet exhibited 18 works, in which six of them Camille had posed.  During this exhibition, Springtime was given the more generic title of Woman Reading.Monet's second wife, Alice Hoschedé, ordered the complete destruction of pictures and mementos from Camille's life with Monet. Therefore, Camille's image almost solely survives on the basis of Monet's paintings.
Auguste Renoir Alice Hoschedé Édouard Manet Claude Monet Alfred Sisley Camille Doncieux Argenteuil