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"In art history, few names are as evocative as Claude Monet. The French artist
is known for his swirling paintings of rivers, gardens, flowers and fields that
would come to define the Impressionist movement.
But Monet wasn’t the only accomplished artist in his family. Blanche
Hoschedé-Monet, his stepdaughter (and, later, his daughter-in-law) was a
respected painter in her own right, working “not in the shadow, but in the
light of Claude Monet,” as her brother Jean-Pierre Hoschedé wrote, according to
Artnet’s Karen Chernick. However, her legacy has long been overlooked.
Of her roughly 300 works, most remain in private hands. The Musée d’Orsay,
which boasts the largest collection of Impressionist art in the world, has only
two of her paintings, neither of which are on view, per the
BBC’s Lucy
Davies. American public collections have only one, while British public
collections don’t have any. Aside from the Musée Blanche Hoschedé-Monet, a
regional museum in Vernon, France, recently renamed in her honor, many museums
and critics have relegated her to Monet’s long shadow.
That’s not the case at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, which
is staging “Blanche Hoschedé-Monet in the Light,” the first solo exhibition of
Hoschedé-Monet’s work in the U.S.
“While Impressionism (and certainly Claude Monet) may be well-known, few
recognize the achievements of Blanche Hoschedé-Monet,” Haley Pierce, a curator
at the museum, says in a statement. “It is my hope that this exhibition
contributes to an expanding narrative of this important artist and period in
the history of modern art.”
Hoschedé-Monet was born in 1865 to Alice and Ernest Hoschedé, a wealthy
Parisian businessman and art collector who counted himself among
Impressionism’s leading supporters. It was Hoschedé who bought Monet’s
Impression, Sunrise (1872), the painting that inspired the movement’s name."
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