# The Red Kerchief, in Impressionism

Claude Monet painted this in about 1868–73, aged about 28. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> This painting depicts Monet's first wife, Camille, outside on a snowy day passing by the French doors of their home at Argenteuil.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1868–73
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Dimensions: Framed: 128.3 x 105.7 x 14.6 cm (50 1/2 x 41 5/8 x 5 3/4 in.); Unframed: 99 x 79.8 cm (39 x 31 7/16 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.39
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Claude Monet](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/claude-monet), French, 1840–1926

Monet grew up in Le Havre, where Eugène Boudin encouraged him to paint outdoors. In Paris he met Renoir, Sisley and Bazille, and his Impression, Sunrise gave the Impressionist movement its name in 1874.

10 works in the collection.

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