Caricature of a Man with a Big Cigar
Claude Monet
1855/56
Medium
Black, white, and colored chalks on blue wove paper
Dimensions
Primary/secondary/tertiary supports: 59.8 × 38.5 cm (23 9/16 × 15 3/16 in.)
Classification
charcoal
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
15809
About the Artist
Claude Monet · 1840–1926
Claude Monet, born Oscar-Claude Monet on November 14, 1840, in Paris and raised in Le Havre, Normandy, began his artistic journey as a successful teenage caricaturist. His formal training started at the Le Havre secondary school of the arts in 1851, where he received his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard. Around 1858, he met Eugène Boudin, who became his pivotal mentor, introducin...