Musée d’Orsay · 1879
Camille Monet on her deathbed
Claude Monet
Monet painted his own wife in the moments after her death, later admitting he found himself observing the changing colours of her face even as he grieved — a confession about how completely painting had taken over his way of seeing.
Why it matters
Monet painted his own wife in the moments after her death, later admitting he found himself observing the changing colours of her face even as he grieved — a confession about how completely painting had taken over his way of seeing.
Look closer
Look at the loose, rapid brushwork across her face — this was painted quickly, in a single sitting, by a man documenting an unbearable moment almost against his own will.
A uniquely personal and unrepeatable painting — Monet later said he regretted having painted it at all, and no comparable subject exists anywhere else in his work.
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