Alice Hoschedé

Alice Raingo Hoschedé Monet (died 1911) was the wife of department store magnate and art collector Ernest Hoschedé [http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=33971&coll_keywords=Manet&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_
] MFA Boston: Street Singer by Manet.] and later the Impressionist painter Claude Monet.

According to unsourced genealogical data reported by Michael Legrand, she was born Angélique Emilie Alice Raingo on February 19, 1844 in Paris to Denis Lucien Alphonse Raingo and his wife Jeanne Coralie Boulade. [http://gw.geneanet.org/index.php3?b=legrmfaj&lang=en;p=angelique+emilie+alice;n=raingo] Michael Legrand Genealogy at GeneaNet.] In 1876, Ernest Hoschedé commissioned Monet to paint panels for a salon in his home at Montgeron. Ernest went bankrupt in 1877. [http://books.google.com/books?id=fwzc62ftRDoC&dq] Heinrich, Christopher, "Monet", Taschen, 2000.] Ernest, Alice, and their children moved into a house in Vétheuil with Monet, Monet's first wife Camille, and the Monets' two sons, Jean and Michel. Ernest, however, spent most of his time in Paris. After Camille Monet's death in 1879, Monet and Alice (along with the children from the two respective families) continued living together at Poissy and later Giverny.

Ernest Hoschedé died in 1891 and Alice finally agreed to marry Monet. [http://www.nysun.com/article/53353] The Monet You Don't Know "New York Sun", 28 Apr 2007.] Claude and Alice married in July 1892. Alice died in 1911. [http://giverny.org/monet/biograph/] Claude Monet biography at giverny.org.] Her children (by Ernest Hoschedé) were Blanche, Germaine, Suzanne, Marthe, Jean-Pierre, and Jacques. [http://books.google.com/books?id=2WXTkZ22lrIC&dq] Holmes, Caroline, "Monet at Giverny", Sterling Publishing, 2003.]

ee also

*Claude Monet

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