Alice Raingo Hoschedé Monet (died 1911) was the wife of department store magnate and art collector Ernest Hoschedé

Ernest Hoschedé

Ernest Hoschedé was a department store magnate in Paris. MFA Boston: Street Singer by Manet. He was best known as a patron of Claude Monet and other Impressionist painters, and the first husband of Monet's second wife, Alice Raingo Hoschedé Monet. In 1876, Hoschedé commissioned Monet to paint...

http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=33971&coll_keywords=Manet&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1 MFA Boston: Street Singer by Manet. and later of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet

Claude Monet

Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. . Retrieved 6 January 2007...

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According to unsourced genealogical data reported by Michael Legrand, she was born Angélique Émilie Alice Raingo on 19 February 1844 in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 to Denis Lucien Alphonse Raingo and his wife Jeanne Coralie Boulade.http://gw.geneanet.org/index.php3?b=legrmfaj&lang=en;p=angelique+emilie+alice;n=raingo Michael Legrand Genealogy at GeneaNet. In 1876, Ernest Hoschedé commissioned Monet to paint panels for his salon in the château de Rottembourg at Montgeron

Montgeron

Montgeron is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.Inhabitants of Montgeron are known as Montgeronnais.-Transport:Montgeron is served by Montgeron – Crosne station on Paris RER line D....

, near Paris. Ernest Hoschedé went bankrupt in 1877.http://books.google.com/books?id=fwzc62ftRDoC&dq Heinrich, Christopher, Monet, Taschen, 2000. Ernest, Alice, and their children moved into a house in Vétheuil

Vétheuil

Vétheuil is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. Vétheuil is located in the arrondissement of Pontoise in the Val-d'Oise department.-Personalities:...

 with Monet, Monet's first wife Camille

Camille Doncieux

Camille Doncieux was the first wife of French painter Claude Monet.She modeled for her husband on several occasions, including for the painting Camille, "The Woman in the Green Dress". In addtion to being Monet's favoured model, she also modelled for Pierre-August Renoir and Édouard Manet.Camille...

, and the Monets' two sons, Jean and Michel. Ernest, however, spent most of his time in Paris. After Camille Monet's death in 1879, Monet and Alice (along with the children from the two respective families) continued living together at Poissy

Poissy

Poissy is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris from the center.In 1561 it was the site of a fruitless Catholic-Huguenot conference, the Colloquy at Poissy...

 and later at Giverny

Giverny

Giverny is a commune in the Eure department in north-western France. It is best known as the location of Claude Monet's garden and home.-Location:Giverny sits on the "right bank" of the River Seine where the river Epte meets the Seine...

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Ernest Hoschedé died in 1891 and Alice agreed to marry Monet in 1892.http://www.nysun.com/article/53353 The Monet You Don't Know New York Sun, 28 Apr 2007. Alice died in 1911.http://giverny.org/monet/biograph/ Claude Monet biography at giverny.org. Her children (by Ernest Hoschedé) were Blanche (who married Claude's son, Jean Monet), Germaine, Suzanne, Marthe, Jean-Pierre, and Jacques.http://books.google.com/books?id=2WXTkZ22lrIC&dq Holmes, Caroline, Monet at Giverny, Sterling Publishing, 2003.