Auguste Renoir - Camille Monet reading 1872

Camille Monet reading 1872
Camille Monet reading
1872 61x50cm oil/canvas
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute at Williamstown, MA, USA

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From Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute at Williamstown:
During the early 1870s, Renoir and Monet often painted side by side, producing images of the same subject and sometimes using each other and other family members as models. In Renoir’s informal portrait of Camille Monet, the painter’s wife sits on a comfortable sofa reading a paperback book. Small touches of color cover the canvas like stitches in a tapestry. A blue line runs down the middle of Mme Monet’s dress, echoing the angle of the Japanese fans on the wall.
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