1868

Monet’s Le Havre patron, Louis-Joachim Gaudibert, assists Monet financially through commissions. One of two entries are accepted at the Salon. His Le Havre shipping scene is siezed by creditors at the close of the Salon. Influential critic and leading intellectual Emile Zola calls him "a leading painter of contemporary life".

Claude Monet
The luncheon 1868
(Le déjeuner)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Acquired in 1910