During that summer Claude Monet was staying at his father's house in Sainte-Adresse, a suburb of Le Havre.

[2] According to Mary Mathews Gedo, author of Monet and his Muse: Camile Monet in the Artist's Life: In 1868, after having left Paris to escape creditors and find more affordable housing, the three moved to Gloton, a small scenic village near Bennecourt.

[4] When Jean was a young child his mother and father had fled France during the Franco-Prussian War.

They returned by the summer of 1872 when Claude painted his five-year-old son on a hobby horse in the garden of the home the family rented in Argenteuil near Paris.

They lived in Rouen, where Jean worked for his uncle Léon Monet as a chemist,[7] and Beaumont-le-Roger until 1913.