The following year, Monet was selected again to participate in the Salon. This time, the show officials chose a landscape and a portrait "Camille" (or also called the woman in green), which featured his lover and future wife, Camille Doncleux. Doncleux came from a humble background and was substantially younger than Monet. She served as a muse for him, sitting for numerous paintings during her lifetime. The couple experienced great hardship around birth of their first son, Jean, in 1867. Monet was in dire financial straits, and his father was unwilling to help them. Monet became so despondent over the situation that, in 1868, he attempted suicide by trying to drown himself n the Seine River.