After the start of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Monet went to England, where he became acquainted with the works of John Constable and William Turner. In the spring of 1871, Monet’s work was denied permission to participate in the exhibition of the Royal Academy.
In May 1871, he left London to move to live in Zaandam, in the Netherlands, where he painted twenty-five paintings. He also went to nearby Amsterdam for the first time.
After returning to France at the end of 1872, Monet painted his famous landscape “Impression. Rising Sun”. It was this picture that gave the name to the group of impressionists and the whole artistic direction. The painting was shown at the first impressionist exhibition in 1874.
The famous critic Leroy wrote about this exhibition: “There was nothing on it except impressions.” From December 1871 to 1878, Monet lived in Argenteuil, a village on the right bank of the River Seine near Paris, and popular for Sunday walks for Parisians, where he wrote some of his most famous works. In 1874 he returned to Holland for a short time.
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