Alice Raingo

Monet and Alice Hoschedé lived together with their children - Woman with Parasol Turned to the Left, Suzanne Hoschede by Clude Monet, 1886 - even before Camille Doncieux’s death. Monet proposed to her while her husband, Ernest Hoschedé, was still alive and in Paris, but she waited until his death in 1891 to agree. They were married that year. In 1883 Monet rented the house in Giverny where his most famous paintings were created. He used a barn as a studio and he had a small garden. There was a school nearby where he sent his two children by Doncieux and Alice’s six children. Mme Hoschedé’s presence was scandalous. Their living together in the house where Doncieux died could be explained away, but moving together was more difficult to explain. Ernest Hoschedé attempted to persuade her to join him in a quest to regain their lost fortune. She did not.

Monet traveled to get different views and subjects for his paintings. Between 1883 and 1908 (In 1905 his first signs of cataracts appeared) Monet traveled to the Mediterranean, Venice, and London. When he traveled to the Mediterranean he painted landmarks, seascapes, and landscapes. He returned to London and painted the Houses of Parliament and views of Charing Cross Bridge. He journeyed to Venice, Italy with his wife, Alice. She usually did not go far from Giverny but she was invited as well by their friend Mary Hunter. Two weeks into their stay Hunter had to leave, so the couple moved to a hotel with electric lighting. Monet could easily see his work; they had electricity installed as soon as they returned to Giverny. Alice wrote that she was "happy to see Monet so impassioned, doing such beautiful things, and - between you and me - something other than those same old water lilies."1 The cold made them leave Venice, as Monet was unable to paint outdoors. Soon Alice’s health began to fail. She died in 1911. In 1912 Monet was diagnosed with nuclear cataracts. His oldest son, Jean, died in 1914. His son’s widow (and Alice’s daughter), Blanche would take care of him for the rest of his life.

The Weeping Willows Monet painted were homage to the fallen French soldiers of World War I. This war affected Monet especially since his only surviving son, Michel, served.

On December 5, 1926 Monet died. He had insisted that the ceremony be simple, so he was buried in the Giverny church cemetery. Only about 50 people attended the ceremony. His friend Georges Clémenceau insisted that the cloth thrown over the casket be floral, rather than black because Impressionists rarely use black in their paintings and it thus seemed inappropriate to have a sheet of black covering Monet

According to unsourced genealogical data reported by Michael Legrand, she was born Angélique Émilie Alice Raingo on 19 February 1844 in Paris to Denis Lucien Alphonse Raingo and his wife Jeanne Coralie Boulade. In 1876, Ernest Hoschedé commissioned Monet to paint panels for his salon in the château de Rottembourg at Montgeron, near Paris. Ernest Hoschedé went bankrupt in 1877. 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 at Giverny.

Ernest Hoschedé died in 1891 and Alice agreed to marry Monet in 1892. Alice died in 1911. Her children (by Ernest Hoschedé) were Blanche (who married Claude's son, Jean Monet), Germaine, Suzanne, Marthe, Jean-Pierre, and Jacques.

• Reference: MyHeritage Genealogy - SmartCopy: Sep 28 2019, 15:19:06 UTC