Before the water lilies, Monet drew cartoons of well-known locals
The caricatures sold for 20 francs each when he was 15, and paid for his move to Paris against his father's wishes.
Claude Monet's first paying work was caricature. At fifteen, he sold unflattering drawings of well-known men around Le Havre through a framing shop, and crowds gathered at the window to look at them. By his own l…
