Connaissances
Claude Monet: a dandy, a lion and a poor man
We can hardly find Claude Monet in his photos, pictures and self portraits dressed in a blouse, something like a shapeless robe which served for an artist as work clothes and with a duster for cleaning of brushes. Monet's friends painted his portraits more often than their associates, for instance, Monet in the open air, Monet and his family, Monet reading a book, and even Monet with a broken…