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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 at Giverny. Still married to Ernest Hoschedé and living with Claude Monet, the Le Gaulois newspaper in Paris declared that she was Monet's "charming wife" in 1880.
In 1876, Camille Monet fell ill with what is believed to have been cervical cancer. In “Camille Holding a Posy of Violets,” below, one can see the toll the disease has had on her health. She looks tired, older, and pale.
Monet's second wife, Alice Hoschedé, ordered the complete destruction of pictures and mementos from Camille's life with Monet. Therefore, Camille's image almost solely survives on the basis of Monet's paintings.
The cause of Camille's death remains uncertain. It may have been pelvic cancer, [4] [12] tuberculosis, [13] or possibly a botched abortion. [11] [14] She died on 5 September 1879 in Vétheuil at the age of 32. Monet painted her on her deathbed.
23 gru 2010 · Alice's destruction of all documentation relating to Camille means that she remains an enigma, despite her material presence in Monet's paintings. With little direct documentary or photographic evidence, Camille has to be constructed through the lens of memory and encounters of others.
As Alice Hoschedé wrote to her mother-in-law, ‘the poor woman really suffered, it was a long and terrible agony, and she was conscious to the last minute’ (letter from Alice Hoschedé to Mme Hoschedé mère, 12 Sept.1879, quoted in Wildenstein 1, 1974, p.98).
We know that this took place because of a letter written by Alice Hoschedé, whose family shared the Vétheuil house with Monet’s family and who eventually became Monet’s second wife. Alice’s letter to her own mother-in-law dated 12 September 1879 reads: My big daughters have been very courageous and kind; they have helped me in all the ...
