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Suzanne Hoschedé
Suzanne Hoschedé (c. 1864–February 6, 1899) was the eldest daughter of Alice Hoschedé and Ernest Hoschedé, the stepdaughter and favorite model of French impressionist painter Claude Monet, and wife of American impressionist painter Theodore Earl Butler. Suzanne is known as "The Woman with a Parasol" in Monet's painting of 1886.
Early life.
In 1878 Monet and his family temporarily moved into the home of Ernest Hoschedé (1837–1891), a wealthy department store owner and patron of the arts. Both families then
Ernest Hoschedé's mother wrote of Alice:
Her children (by Ernest Hoschedé) were Blanche (who married Claude's son, Jean Monet), Germaine, Suzanne, Marthe, Jean-Pierre, and Jacques.
Life with the Monet family.
In 1876, Hoschedé commissioned Monet to paint decorative panels for the "Château de Rottembourg" and several landscape paintings. According to the "Nineteenth-century European Art: A Topical Dictionary", it may have been during this visit that Monet began a relationship with