Claude MonetFrankrijk, 1840–1926The Red Kerchief
Over het schilderij
The Red Cape, also sometimes known as Madame Monet or The Red Kerchief, is an oil-on-canvas snowscape by French impressionist Claude Monet, from c. 1868–1873. The painting depicts Claude Monet's first wife, Camille, dressed in a red cape, passing outside of a window.
Monet painted the painting while living in Argenteuil. The solitary setting at his home there allowed him to paint in relative peace, as well as spend time with his family. It is Monet's only known snowscape painting that features Camille Monet. Since 1958, it has been in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio.
In de woorden van het museum
This painting depicts Monet's first wife, Camille, outside on a snowy day passing by the French doors of their home at Argenteuil. Her face is rendered in a radically bold Impressionist technique of mere daubs of paint quickly applied, just as the snow and trees are defined by broad, broken strokes of pure white and green.
Cleveland Museum of Art
Gegevens
- Inventarisnummer
- 1958.39
Intussen, in het leven van Claude Monet
Het hele leven8 August 1867
Birth of his son Jean
Monet and Camille Doncieux had their first son, Jean.
8 augustus 1867
Son born: Jean Monet
28 juni 1870
Married: Camille Doncieux
28 June 1870
Marriage to Camille Doncieux
Monet married his model Camille Doncieux shortly before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War.
1870–1871
London exile
Evading conscription during the Franco-Prussian War, Monet lived in London, where he studied Constable and Turner, met Pissarro and Whistler, and became acquainted with his first and principal dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel — an encounter decisive for his career.
