A little wonder, every day
Claude Monet’s school caricatures
Claude Monet, *Caricature of Jules Didier*, c. 1850s. Wikimedia Commons file page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claude_Monet_-_Caricature_of_Jules_Didier.jpg — public domain. Reused from the locally reviewed package fact-2428; image visually checked there.
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Claude Monet recalled that, while still at school, he filled his notebooks with caricatures of his teachers. Surviving early drawings date to about 1855–56, when Monet was about 14–15; he became known as a caricaturist in Le Havre while still a teenager.
