A woman in garden

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

This is a large work painted “en plein air”. The size of the canvas required Monet to paint its upper half with the canvas lowered into a trench he had dug, so that he could maintain a single point of view for the entire work. The setting is the garden of a property he was renting. His wife Camille posed for the figures. Monet finished the work indoors, and used magazine illustrations to render fashionable clothing.