Happy Birthday Claude Monet

Young Monet from 1865 Carjat Photo
Watercolor on Paper
9 x 12 in/22.6 x 30.4 cm
Copyright Byrne Smith 2016 

In honor of what would have been Claude Oscar Monet's 176th birthday on November 14, I painted a watercolor portrait of a young Monet from an Etienne Carjat photograph, circa 1865.

Happy Birthday, Claude, the Master.