"Hyde Park" by Claude Monet

"That Monet guy has potential. If it applies himself he just may sell a painting or two someday."... Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris , Paris - "Hyde park" 1871 - by Claude Monet - today

Happy Birthday Claude Monet... you rock!

Oscar-Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. Wikipedia
Born: Nov. 14, 1840, 9th arrondissement of Paris, Paris, France