Paintings
The Red Kerchief
Permanent ExhibitionPainting
Details
- Author / creator
- Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
- Object type
- Painting
- Date or period
- c. 1868–73
- Dimensions summary
- Framed: 128.3 × 105.7 × 14.6 cm; Unframed: 99 × 79.8 cm
- Support
- Other
- Paint medium
- Oil
- Place of origin
- France
- Acquisition method
- Bequest
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by the Friends of the Ashcombe Museum, 1958
About this object
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.
Materials and technique
Oil on fabric
Signature and marks
Not signed
