In an article (a trailer for her forthcoming #Monet biography), Jackie Wullschlager makes the claim (which sounds plausible, certainly), that he was the only major painter of his time not to paint nude women.

This is an interesting claim, given other major artists around this time (from Courbet before, via Picasso, to Matisse) all did...

This refusal to adopt one of the key subjects in #arthistory, makes me think of Monet a little differently & now I'm eager to read Wullschlager's biography... 

 @43d7c4ea I immediately thought of Turner and Constable, but I see Monet became famous in the second half of the century while they were of the previous generation.