But for decades before then, the oil painting — one of nearly 250 painted at Monet’s home in Giverny, France — sat idle on the dining room wall of Michel Monet, the artist’s sole living son.

His eldest son, Jean Monet, died an early death in Giverny in 1914, and his younger son, Michel, endured surgery in Paris the same year. If that world of crises and mourning was not enough for the ...

As the website of the Musee Marmottan puts it: “Monet’s last work then went into art historical purgatory.’’ Michel Monet, the artist’s youngest son and sole surviving heir, found that ...

After the Impressionist icon’s death in 1926, the terracotta feline went to Monet’s son Michel. But following Michel’s own death four decades later, the little white figurine appeared to ...

When Monet died, the painting went to his son Michel Monet, who hung it in his family’s home until he decided to sell it in 1959. The painting was then shipped to Portland so the museum could ...

Later, she saw it in the home of Michel, Monet’s second son, who would be killed in a car crash in 1966. A surprising discovery has now been made about Michel, who married but was assumed to ...