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MONET CLAUDE: (1840-1926) French Impressionist painter. A very fine and lengthy A.L.S., Claude Monet, six pages, 8vo, Sandviken (Norway), 5th March 1895, to his wife, Alice Hoschedé (´Ma bonne femme chérie´), in French. Monet states that he had been beginning to worry about his wife´s silence, ´car depuis 4 jours nous attendions le courrier en vain tous en retard causée par le mauvais temps, sont aussi pénibles pour toi que pour moi´ (Translation: ´because for the last four days we had been waiting in vain for the post, all late due to the bad weather. This is as difficult for you as it is for me´) adding that he finally received her letters of 28th February and 2nd March, remarking ´je ne te cache pas que lorsque un jour passe sans lettre de toi je suis sans courage, car j’ai plus que jamais besoin d’appui, d’encouragement´ (Translation: ´I can't hide from you that when a day goes by without a letter from you I am discouraged, because I need support and encouragement more than ever´) and continuing to provide news of his painting and the conditions he faces, ´Je travaille, mais que de perte de temps. Bon dieu, chaque jour c’est un incident un contre-temps imprévu. Comme chaque jour je vois de plus belles choses, il a refait très froid après ces dernières chutes de neige, mais aujourd’hui c’est comme un dégel. Le soleil devient d’une ardeur extraordinaire et les jours grandissent d’une manière inconnue chez nous et cela se concoit puisqu´en juin il n’y aura pour ainsi dire plus de nuit. Je ne sais vraiment pas si j’arriverai à faire une seule toile possible. J’en commence toujours sans jamais retrouver une seconde séance et cependant je sais bien que je vois et comprends mieux comment rendre cette nature. Mais il faudrait des mois pour cela, et je redoute que d’un jour à l’autre le dégel soit complet. Ce qu’il y a de bête et de regretable c’est de m’être mis dans la tête de rapporter quelque chose, on ne vient pas ainsi dans un pays si différent se mettre à le peindre de but en blanc´ (Translation: ´I work, but what a waste of time. Good Lord, every day there is an incident, an unforeseen setback. Because each day I see new beautiful things. It has become very cold again after the last snowfall, but today it is like a thaw. The sun has become extraordinarily intense and the days are lengthening in a way we don't experience at home, and this makes sense since there will be no more nighttimes to come in June, so to speak. I really don't know if I'll be able to paint even a single canvas. I keep starting them, then find I can’t take them into a second session, despite the knowledge I know I’ve gained in how to better render this nature. But it could take months to master, and I fear that from one day to the next the thaw will end. What is stupid and regrettable is that I got it into my head that I was going to bring something back with me, but you can’t just turn up in a country as different as this and find yourself able to start painting it at the drop of a hat’), further lamenting the fact that he will have seen very little of Norway, and only a small area surrounding Christiania (i.e. Oslo), and expressing his innermost thoughts, ´Pardonnez-moi de ne pas pouvoir t´écrire que je suis dans la joie et content de ce que je fais.....mais tu me connais je ne puis dissimuler et à qui confier mes pensées mes impressions si ce n’est à toi et je te demande de m´écrire le plus souvent possible. j’ai besoin de ton soutien pour me remonter et puis ne te décourage pas peut-être demain serais-je plus satisfait plus heureux, hier je voyais tout d’un bon œil....´ (Translation: ´Forgive me for not being able to write saying that I am happy and content with what I am doing......but as you know, I’m not capable of hiding my thoughts and impressions, and with whom could I share them if not you, and I ask you to write to me as often as possible. I need your support to cheer me up and so don't be discouraged, maybes tomorrow I will be more satisfied, happier, yesterday I saw everything with a keen eye...´). Monet further writes of his health, and that of his son-in-law Jacques Hoschede (with whom he was travelling in Norway), makes a reference to his daughter-in-law, Suzanne Hoschede, and also displays a certain longing for his wife and home´ De nos santés tu n´as pas à t´inquiéter nous nous portons tres bien. Quand à notre chère Suzanne ne te décourage pas il lui faut le beau temps......et toi avec tous tes ennuis comment es-tu, tu ne me parles jamais de ta santé. Ecris-moi longuement et n´ai jamais de remords si une lettre est en retard ou perdue, car tu me dis n´avais pas recu de nouvelles de moi du lundi au samedi et c´est impossible, puis je t´en pris ne m´adresse pas des lignes si courtes que celle du 28 fev si laconique, une demie page, et qui ressemble a une punition et c´en est une je t´assure. Je t’aime ma chérie et pense sans cesse à toi à vous tous ne m’en veux donc pas d’être malheureux tu sais mon énergie mon courage, lorsque je suis au moins un peu favorisé par le temps. Cela peut venir encore peut-etre. Si j´avais la déveine d´ici quelques jours de voir le temps mauvais.....et enfin si je voyais l´impossibilite matérielle de rien faire et bien je songerai au départ´ (Translation: ´You don't have to worry about our health. We are doing very well. As for our dear Suzanne, don't be discouraged. She needs good weather......And you, with all your troubles, how are you? You never talk to me about your health. Write to me at length and never feel guilty if a letter is late or lost, because you tell me you hadn't heard from me from Monday to Saturday and that's impossible, so please don't write me such short lines as the one on 28 February, so laconic, half a page, and which feels like a punishment and it is one, I assure you. I love you, my darling, and think of you and all of you constantly, so don't be cross with me for being unhappy. You know my energy and my courage when I'm at least a little favoured by the weather. It may come again, maybe. If I am unlucky and the weather turns bad in a few days' time... and if I realise that it is materially impossible for me to do anything, well, I will think about leaving´). The artist concludes his letter in affectionate terms, ´Je t´embrasse et t´envoi toute mes pensées tout mon coeur baisers a tous a ma petite a ma grande.....´ (Translation: ´I send you all my love and all my best wishes, kisses to everyone, to my little one, to my big one...´). A letter of excellent content, not least for its references to the difficulties Monet endured during his painting expedition in Norway. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VGAlice Hoschedé Monet (1844-1911) French artists' model, wife of the art collector Ernest Hoschede and later of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet (from 1892).Suzanne Hoschedé (1868-1899) was the stepdaughter and favourite model of Monet, and was the subject of his painting The Woman with a Parasol (1886).Claude Monet’s trip to Norway in 1895 was perhaps the most physically taxing of all his many painting campaigns. Touring the country with his stepson Jacques Hoschedé, who lived in Christiania, he was awestruck but initially frustrated in his search for good subjects amid the snow as the present letter suggests. Despite this discontent, Monet painted twenty-nine Norwegian scenes during his two-month stay.
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MONET CLAUDE: (1840-1926) French Impressionist painter. A very fine and lengthy A.L.S., Claude Monet, six pages, 8vo, Sandviken (Norway), 5th March 1895, to his wife, Alice Hoschedé (´Ma bonne femme chérie´), in French. Monet states that he had been beginning to worry about his wife´s silence, ´car depuis 4 jours nous attendions le courrier en vain tous en retard causée par le mauvais temps, sont aussi pénibles pour toi que pour moi´ (Translation: ´because for the last four days we had been waiting in vain for the post, all late due to the bad weather. This is as difficult for you as it is for me´) adding that he finally received her letters of 28th February and 2nd March, remarking ´je ne te cache pas que lorsque un jour passe sans lettre de toi je suis sans courage, car j’ai plus que jamais besoin d’appui, d’encouragement´ (Translation: ´I can't hide from you that when a day goes by without a letter from you I am discouraged, because I need support and encouragement more than ever´) and continuing to provide news of his painting and the conditions he faces, ´Je travaille, mais que de perte de temps. Bon dieu, chaque jour c’est un incident un contre-temps imprévu. Comme chaque jour je vois de plus belles choses, il a refait très froid après ces dernières chutes de neige, mais aujourd’hui c’est comme un dégel. Le soleil devient d’une ardeur extraordinaire et les jours grandissent d’une manière inconnue chez nous et cela se concoit puisqu´en juin il n’y aura pour ainsi dire plus de nuit. Je ne sais vraiment pas si j’arriverai à faire une seule toile possible. J’en commence toujours sans jamais retrouver une seconde séance et cependant je sais bien que je vois et comprends mieux comment rendre cette nature. Mais il faudrait des mois pour cela, et je redoute que d’un jour à l’autre le dégel soit complet. Ce qu’il y a de bête et de regretable c’est de m’être mis dans la tête de rapporter quelque chose, on ne vient pas ainsi dans un pays si différent se mettre à le peindre de but en blanc´ (Translation: ´I work, but what a waste of time. Good Lord, every day there is an incident, an unforeseen setback. Because each day I see new beautiful things. It has become very cold again after the last snowfall, but today it is like a thaw. The sun has become extraordinarily intense and the days are lengthening in a way we don't experience at home, and this makes sense since there will be no more nighttimes to come in June, so to speak. I really don't know if I'll be able to paint even a single canvas. I keep starting them, then find I can’t take them into a second session, despite the knowledge I know I’ve gained in how to better render this nature. But it could take months to master, and I fear that from one day to the next the thaw will end. What is stupid and regrettable is that I got it into my head that I was going to bring something back with me, but you can’t just turn up in a country as different as this and find yourself able to start painting it at the drop of a hat’), further lamenting the fact that he will have seen very little of Norway, and only a small area surrounding Christiania (i.e. Oslo), and expressing his innermost thoughts, ´Pardonnez-moi de ne pas pouvoir t´écrire que je suis dans la joie et content de ce que je fais.....mais tu me connais je ne puis dissimuler et à qui confier mes pensées mes impressions si ce n’est à toi et je te demande de m´écrire le plus souvent possible. j’ai besoin de ton soutien pour me remonter et puis ne te décourage pas peut-être demain serais-je plus satisfait plus heureux, hier je voyais tout d’un bon œil....´ (Translation: ´Forgive me for not being able to write saying that I am happy and content with what I am doing......but as you know, I’m not capable of hiding my thoughts and impressions, and with whom could I share them if not you, and I ask you to write to me as often as possible. I need your support to cheer me up and so don't be discouraged, maybes tomorrow I will be more satisfied, happier, yesterday I saw everything with a keen eye...´). Monet further writes of his health, and that of his son-in-law Jacques Hoschede (with whom he was travelling in Norway), makes a reference to his daughter-in-law, Suzanne Hoschede, and also displays a certain longing for his wife and home´ De nos santés tu n´as pas à t´inquiéter nous nous portons tres bien. Quand à notre chère Suzanne ne te décourage pas il lui faut le beau temps......et toi avec tous tes ennuis comment es-tu, tu ne me parles jamais de ta santé. Ecris-moi longuement et n´ai jamais de remords si une lettre est en retard ou perdue, car tu me dis n´avais pas recu de nouvelles de moi du lundi au samedi et c´est impossible, puis je t´en pris ne m´adresse pas des lignes si courtes que celle du 28 fev si laconique, une demie page, et qui ressemble a une punition et c´en est une je t´assure. Je t’aime ma chérie et pense sans cesse à toi à vous tous ne m’en veux donc pas d’être malheureux tu sais mon énergie mon courage, lorsque je suis au moins un peu favorisé par le temps. Cela peut venir encore peut-etre. Si j´avais la déveine d´ici quelques jours de voir le temps mauvais.....et enfin si je voyais l´impossibilite matérielle de rien faire et bien je songerai au départ´ (Translation: ´You don't have to worry about our health. We are doing very well. As for our dear Suzanne, don't be discouraged. She needs good weather......And you, with all your troubles, how are you? You never talk to me about your health. Write to me at length and never feel guilty if a letter is late or lost, because you tell me you hadn't heard from me from Monday to Saturday and that's impossible, so please don't write me such short lines as the one on 28 February, so laconic, half a page, and which feels like a punishment and it is one, I assure you. I love you, my darling, and think of you and all of you constantly, so don't be cross with me for being unhappy. You know my energy and my courage when I'm at least a little favoured by the weather. It may come again, maybe. If I am unlucky and the weather turns bad in a few days' time... and if I realise that it is materially impossible for me to do anything, well, I will think about leaving´). The artist concludes his letter in affectionate terms, ´Je t´embrasse et t´envoi toute mes pensées tout mon coeur baisers a tous a ma petite a ma grande.....´ (Translation: ´I send you all my love and all my best wishes, kisses to everyone, to my little one, to my big one...´). A letter of excellent content, not least for its references to the difficulties Monet endured during his painting expedition in Norway. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VGAlice Hoschedé Monet (1844-1911) French artists' model, wife of the art collector Ernest Hoschede and later of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet (from 1892).Suzanne Hoschedé (1868-1899) was the stepdaughter and favourite model of Monet, and was the subject of his painting The Woman with a Parasol (1886).Claude Monet’s trip to Norway in 1895 was perhaps the most physically taxing of all his many painting campaigns. Touring the country with his stepson Jacques Hoschedé, who lived in Christiania, he was awestruck but initially frustrated in his search for good subjects amid the snow as the present letter suggests. Despite this discontent, Monet painted twenty-nine Norwegian scenes during his two-month stay.
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