An haifi Claude Monet a ranar 14 ga Nuwamba, 1840 a bene na biyar na 45 rue Laffitte, a gundumar 9 na Paris. Ya kasance ɗan na biyu na Claude Adolphe Monet da Louise Justine Aubrée Monet, duka biyu 'yan Paris ne na ƙarni na biyu. A ranar 20 ga Mayu, 1841, an yi masa baftisma a cocin Ikklisiya na gida, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, kamar yadda Oscar-Claude, amma iyayensa sun kira shi kawai Oscar. (Ya sanya hannu a julia "O. Monet Ochite".) Duk da cewa an yi masa baftisma Katolika, Monet daga baya ya zama mara imani.A 1845, iyalinsa sun koma Le Havre a Normandy.
Mutanen birnin Paris