MONET, Claude
(b. 1840, Paris, d. 1926, Giverny)

Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son

1875
Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington

After a few pictures painted in the 1860s, Monet dispensed almost entirely with figures in his works, devoting himself to landscape painting. The present painting, which belongs to a series of paintings executed by Monet during the summers of 1875 and 1876, and depicting the garden of his second home at Argenteuil and the poppy-covered fields of nearby Colombes and Gennevilliers, is exceptional owing to the prominent role that Monet accords to the figure within the landscape. The model for the figure is Camille, Monet's wife, dressed in white and wearing a veiled hat.

The painting was exhibited at the second Impressionist exhibition in 1876.




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