Claude Monet – Camille Monet in Japanese Costume (1876)

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Claude Monet – Camille Monet in Japanese Costume (La Japonaise) (1876)

“Madame Monet wearing a Kimono” by Claude Monet depicts Camille, the artist’s wife, in a splendid kimono standing in front of a wall covered in Japanese fans. Paintings of European women in Japanese costume were popular in France in the second half of the 1800s. Monet’s wife, Camille, is wearing a blond wig in this painting to emphasize her Western identity.

Monet exhibited this work at the second group show of the Impressionist painters in 1876, where it attracted much attention. This full-length portrait of Camille wearing a blonde wig and staring out at the viewer with an expression that period-critics saw as sexually suggestive.

This painting was motivated by commercial and publicity reasons at a time when Monet needed money. However, it was also a witty comment on the then Paris fad for all things Japanese. “La Japonaise,” which is literally “Japanese woman,” was not Monet’s original title for this painting. He exhibited it as “Japonerie,” a recently introduced word describing Western works that imitated Japanese objects.

Monet included an elaborately embroidered kimono, sixteen paper fans, and a tatami mat as Japanese objects. The fan in Camille’s hand, however, was decorated in red, white, and blue, the colors of the French flag. Emile Zola, the French novelist, described it as: “prodigious in color and in strangeness.”

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