Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Oscar-Claude Monet (UK: /ˈmɒneɪ/, US: /moʊˈneɪ, məˈ-/, French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.[1]

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Images

Works

Three Cows Grazing, 1868, pastel on paper[2]

Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), 1872; the painting that gave its name to the style and artistic movement. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris[3]

Lavacourt under Snow (Coucher de soleil sur la neige à Lavacourt), 1881, oil on canvas, 59.7 x 80.6 cm, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin[4]

 

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_Cows_Grazing_by_Claude_Monet.jpg

[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monet_-_Impression,_Sunrise.jpg

[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monet,_Lavacourt-Sunshine-and-Snow.jpg

Claude Dauphin (1903-1978)

Claude Dauphin (1903-1978)

Claude Dauphin (19 August 1903 – 16 November 1978) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1930 and 1978.

He was born in Corbeil-Essonnes, Essonne. His father was Maurice Étienne Legrand, a poet who wrote as Franc-Nohain, and who was the librettist for Maurice Ravel's opera L'heure espagnole.

Dauphin married American actress Norma Eberhardt in 1955. The couple divided their time between Paris, Los Angeles, New York City and Ocean Township, New Jersey. They remained together until Dauphin's death in Paris in 1978.

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Quotes·Quotations by Claude Dauphin

Claude Dauphin as President Dianthus of Earth from Barbarella (1968)

¶ One day, Barbarella, we must meet in the flesh.

Claude Rains (1889-1967)

Claude Rains (1889-1967)

William Claude Rains (10 November 1889 – 30 May 1967) was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned 46 years. He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man (1933), a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and, perhaps his most notable performance, as Captain Renault in Casablanca (1942).

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Quotes·Quotation by Claude Rains


Claude Rains as Capt. Louis Renault from Casablanca (1942)

¶ Major Strasser has been shot. [pause] Round up the usual suspects.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Rains