Monet would later say, “ it was as if a veil were torn from my eyes.”
Oscar-Claude Monet started his career by sketching caricatures of local notables and hawking them about in Le Havre: they enjoyed a certain success. He caught the eye of Eugene Boudin who also worked in Le Havre, and he encouraged the young Monet to take his themes from nature, and to get outside and learn the art of painting alongside him. Monet would later say, “ it was as if a veil were torn from my eyes.” At the age of 19 he set up in Paris where a new life opened up, Pissarro, Guillaumin, Sisley, Bazille, Renoir would soon be among his companions.