MONET Claude (1840-1926) Signed autograph letter addressed to Alice HOSCHEDÉ S.l., March 4 [1892], 2 pages in-8 in ink. (Scrubbed margins without lack of text and some slight traces of tape on the back). Rare autograph letter from Claude Monet to the woman who would become his wife. "It was a little better today and I'll get through this cathedral, but it takes me a long time, it's only through hard work that I'll get what I want. ...I kiss you as I love you. Your Monet". Alice Hoschedé (1844-1911), French model, posed for Claude Monet. She married Ernest Hoschedé, a collector and friend of Monet. After her husband's death, she married Claude Monet for a second time on 16 July 1892.