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

Camille Monet on the Couch

1871
Oil on canvas, 48 x 75 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

In 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, Monet and his family settled in London. He painted his intimate interior depicting his wife on a couch, which resembles Whistler's The Artist's Mother painted in the same year.




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