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莫奈1840年11月14日出生于法国[[巴黎]][[ 巴黎第九區|第九區]] 拉斐特街45號（45 rue Laffitte），<ref name="Tucker5">P. Tucker ''Claude Monet: Life and Art'', p. 5</ref> 是阿道夫和路易斯的次子，雙親均為第二代巴黎人。1841年5月20日，他在当地的[[巴黎圣母院教区教堂]]受洗，取名為奧斯卡-克勞德（Oscar-Claude），父母一般只叫他奧斯卡<ref name="Tucker5" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Patin |first=Sylvie |others=張容/譯 |date=1995年8月15日 |edition=2000年4月30日初版七刷 |title=《莫內：捕捉光與色彩的瞬間》 |series=[[發現之旅叢書|發現之旅]] |volume=[[發現之旅叢書書目列表|22]] |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35129170 |location=臺北 |publisher=[[時報文化]] |page=第14頁 |chapter=第一章：「如果我算是個畫家⋯」—不聽話的童年 |language=zh-TW |isbn=978-957-13-1750-2}}</ref>。雖然[[受洗]]為[[天主教徒]]，但後來莫奈成為了[[無神論者]]。<ref>{{cite book|title=Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self|year=1994|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=9780226475431|page=66|author=Steven Z. Levine|edition=2|chapter=6|quote=Much closer to Monet's own atheism and pessimism is Schopenhauer, already introduced to the impressionist circle in the criticism of Theodore Duret in the 1870s and whose influence in France was at its peak in 1886, the year of ''The World as Will and Idea''.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: the Model-wives of Cézanne, Monet, and Rodin|year=2008|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=9780300149531|page=202|author=Ruth Butler|quote=Then Monet took the end of his brush and drew some long straight strokes in the wet pigment across her chest. It's not clear, and probably not consciously intended by the atheist Claude Monet, but somehow the suggestion of a Cross lies there on her body.}}</ref>