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Sat 04 Apr 2007Lasting ImpressionsThe artists who followed Claude Monet were not innovators, but they created a distinctive colony around the Impressionist master, writes Lara Marlowein GivernySoon after Claude Monet moved to Giverny in 1883, he wrote to the art dealer Theodore Duret: "I am in ecstasy. Giverny is a splendid place for me." The first Impressionist painter remained there until his death in 1924.