Alice Hoschedé Explained

Alice Raingo Hoschedé Monet (February 19, 1844 – May 19, 1911) was the wife of department store magnate and art collector Ernest Hoschedé[1] and later of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet.

Early life

According to unsourced genealogical data reported by Michael Legrand, she was born Angélique Émilie Alice Raingo on February 19, 1844, in Paris to Belgian born Denis Lucien Alphonse Raingo and his wife Jeanne Coralie Boulade.[2] [3]

Marriage to Ernest Hoschedé

After meeting her future daughter-in-law in 1863, Ernest Hoschedé's mother wrote of Alice:

Her children (by Ernest Hoschedé) were Blanche (who married Claude's son, Jean Monet), Germaine, Suzanne, Marthe, Jean-Pierre, and Jacques.[4] [5]

Life with the Monet family

In 1876, Ernest Hoschedé commissioned Monet to paint decorative panels for the Château de Rottembourg[6] and several landscape paintings.[7] The four panels representing Les Dindons (The Turkeys)[8] , l'Étang à Montgeron (Pond at Montgeron),[9] Coin de Jardin à Montgeron (A Corner in the Garden at Montgeron)[10] and La Chasse (The Hunt)[11] [12] were however never installed in the rotunda of the château.[13]

According to the Nineteenth-century European Art: A Topical Dictionary, it may have been during this visit that Monet began a relationship with Alice and her youngest son, Jean-Pierre, may have been fathered by Monet.[14] Ernest Hoschedé went bankrupt in 1877.[15] Ernest, Alice, and their children moved into a house in Vétheuil with Monet, Monet's first wife Camille, and the Monet's two sons, Jean and Michel. Ernest spent increasing lengths of time in Paris. He then lived in Paris and worked at le Voltaire.[16] There are times when Ernest Hoschedé returns to visit his wife and children at the successive Monet households of Vétheuil, Poissy and Giverny. During those times Monet leaves the household. The separation from Alice, though, leaves Monet greatly distressed, experiencing nightmares, and generally unable to paint.[17]

Before the Monet and Hoschedé families had moved to Poissy, Ernest Hoschedé had refused to pay his share of the upkeep for Alice and the children.[18] In 1886 he showed up and demanded that his wife and children return with him to Paris, but Alice remained with Monet.[19]

Relationship with Claude Monet

After Camille Monet's death in 1879, Monet and Alice (along with the children from the two respective families) continued living together at Poissy and later at Giverny.[20] Still married to Ernest Hoschedé and living with Claude Monet, the Le Gaulois newspaper in Paris declared that she was Monet's "charming wife" in 1880.[21]

Ernest Hoschedé died in 1891 and Alice agreed to marry Monet in 1892.[22]

Alice died on 19 May 1911.[23] Her death deeply affected the painter. On the night of her death, he wrote to his friend, Gustave Geffroy, a French art historian and novelist: This letter is on display in one of the rooms of Fondation Monet in Giverny.[24]

Paintings of Alice

Some of the paintings of Alice Hoschedé Monet are:[25]

In popular culture

Amanda Root portrayed Hoschedé in the 2006 BBC docudrama The Impressionists.

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/street-singer-33971 Street Singer Provenance Information.
  2. Web site: Michael Legrand Genealogy . GeneaNet .
  3. Web site: 1802-11-19 . Denis Lucien Alphonse Raingo . 2023-12-31 . geni_family_tree . en-US.
  4. Book: Museyon Guides. Art + Paris Impressionists & Post-Impressionists: The Ultimate Guide to Artists, Paintings and Places in Paris and Normandy. 1 July 2011. Museyon Guides. 978-1-938450-24-2. 266.
  5. Web site: 1844-02-19 . Alice Raingo . 2023-12-31 . geni_family_tree . en-US.
  6. Book: Sue Roe . The private lives of the impressionists . 157 . Harper Collins Publishers . New York . 2006 . 0-06-054558-5 .
  7. Web site: Parcours patrimoine : Château et parc de Rottembourg . 2023-12-31 . Montgeron . fr-FR.
  8. Book: 2024-01-01. 1996. 3-8228-8759-5. fr, en, de. Daniel Wildenstein. 169–170. Wildenstein Institute and Taschen. Monet: Catalogue raisonné - Werkverzeichnis, Volume II: Nos. 1–968.
  9. Book: 2024-01-01. 1996. 3-8228-8759-5. fr, en, de. Daniel Wildenstein. 171. Wildenstein Institute and Taschen. Monet: Catalogue raisonné - Werkverzeichnis, Volume II: Nos. 1–968.
  10. Book: 2024-01-01. 1996. 3-8228-8759-5. fr, en, de. Daniel Wildenstein. 170–171. Wildenstein Institute and Taschen. Monet: Catalogue raisonné - Werkverzeichnis, Volume II: Nos. 1–968.
  11. Book: 2024-01-01. 1876. Claude Monet. La Chasse.
  12. Book: 2024-01-01. 1996. 3-8228-8759-5. fr, en, de. Daniel Wildenstein. 175–176. Wildenstein Institute and Taschen. Monet: Catalogue raisonné - Werkverzeichnis, Volume II: Nos. 1–968.
  13. Book: 2024-01-01. 1996. 3-8228-8759-5. fr, en, de. Daniel Wildenstein. 944. Wildenstein Institute and Taschen. Monet: Catalogue raisonné - Werkverzeichnis, Volume IV: Nos. 1596–1983 et les Grandes Décorations.
  14. Book: Terry W. Strieter. Nineteenth-century European Art: A Topical Dictionary. registration. 1999. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-29898-1. 103–104.
  15. Book: Monet . registration . 54 . Christopher Heinrich . Taschen . 2000.
  16. Web site: Camille Doncieux . monetpainting.net . 29 August 2014 . 10 June 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140610070244/http://www.monetpainting.net/camille.php . dead .
  17. Book: Steven Z. Levine. Claude Monet. Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self. January 1994. University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-47544-8. 27, 53.
  18. Book: Mary McAuliffe. Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends. 16 May 2011. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 978-1-4422-0929-9. 113.
  19. Book: Mary McAuliffe. Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends. 16 May 2011. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 978-1-4422-0929-9. 165–166.
  20. Book: Museyon Guides. Art + Paris Impressionists & Post-Impressionists: The Ultimate Guide to Artists, Paintings and Places in Paris and Normandy. 1 July 2011. Museyon Guides. 978-1-938450-24-2. 23, 29–30.
  21. Book: Museyon Guides. Art + Paris Impressionists & Post-Impressionists: The Ultimate Guide to Artists, Paintings and Places in Paris and Normandy. 1 July 2011. Museyon. 978-0-9822320-9-5. 30.
  22. News: April 28, 2007 . The Monet You Don't Know . New York Sun .
  23. Web site: Claude Monet biography . giverny.org . 2008-01-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070621080544/http://giverny.org/monet/biograph/ . 2007-06-21 . dead .
  24. Foundation Claude Monet in Giverny: https://fondation-monet.com/actualites/mai-1911-alice-monet-seteint/. Retrieved on 6 September 2020.
  25. Web site: 2009-07-07 . Le jeune Monet trouva l'inspiration à Montgeron . 2023-12-31 . leparisien.fr . fr.
  26. Web site: Tate . ‘Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood‘, John Singer Sargent, ?1885 . 2024-01-01 . Tate . en-GB.

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