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1904 Buys a car and travels to Madrid with Alice for three weeks in October, in order to study the works of the Spanish masters, in particular Velazquez, in the Prado.

Indeed, some of his seascapes include real grains of sand blown up by the wind and trapped between layers of paint.

As Renoir reported: 'When he arrived at the atelier, the students - all envious of his magnificent appearance - called him the "dandy." He didn't have a penny, but he wore shirts with lace cuffs... With the exception of friends of the "group," Monet viewed the students as an anonymous mass, as "narrow minds." To one female student who made advances to him, a pretty but vulgar girl, he said: "Forgive me, but I only sleep with duchesses or maids. Everything in-between revolts me. My ideal would be the maid of a duchess."'