Claude Monet participates with Sisley, Auguste Renoir,…

Claude Monet participates with Sisley, Auguste Renoir, and Berthe Morisot at an auction sale of Impressionist paintings at the H6tel Drouot in March, but the works fetch only low prices.

Monet's wife Camille becomes ill, adding to his financial difficulties.

Renoir, who sells ninety paintings (at low prices) at the auction, meets the art connoisseur Victor Chocquet and Georges Charpentier, the publisher of Zola and Daudet.

Morisot, who sells comparatively well at the Drouot auction, spends the summer in Gennevilliers and works in England and on the Isle of Wight.