The French Impressionist, Claude Monet, frequently painted his family and friends in a style that combined a brilliant luminance of light and color, enveloped in an ideal landscape. Flowers bloom, skies are blue with billowing clouds, cares are far away. One can almost smell the blossoming breezes.

The possibility of rest and relaxation in the countryside was charming to the French bourgeois after the Franco-Prussian War and the horrors of the Paris Commune.

Diary telling of an experience of the Paris Commune

An eccentric vignette of Franco- Prussian War: Balloons and messenger pigeons
Claude Monet, Woman with a Parasol: Madame Monet and Her Son, 1875. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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