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1866

A woman in green

author

Oscar-Claude Monet

description

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany.

Here, Monet depicted his first wife, Camille Doncieux. The work was allegedly done in a mere four days. Critics described it as ‘the Parision queen, the triumphant woman’ in the magazine L’Artiste. It represents the epitome of a fashionable, avant-garde woman.