Our lecture brings together some one hundred works, including paintings and drawings by Monet, Sisley, Pissarro and Renoir, as well as color books, fabric samples, Japanese prints, archival documents and a host of family photographs.

The dynamic portrait Claude Monet painted of his older brother in 1874, a vibrant illustration of the emotional bond that united the two brothers, was presented for the first time in the exhibition that Luxembourg Museum in Paris organized in 2013 on the forgotten brother of one of the most famous Impressionists. This is an opportunity to place Léon Monet firmly within Claude's biography, and to demonstrate the brothers' shared interest in color.