Description
This painting depicts Monet's first wife, Camille, outside on a snowy day passing by the French doors of their home at Argenteuil. Her face is rendered in a radically bold Impressionist technique of mere daubs of paint quickly applied, just as the snow and trees are defined by broad, broken strokes of pure white and green.
Provenance
Michel Monet [1878-1966] Giverny, France, bequeathed from the artist's estate to his son, 1931 (1931-1939); Edouard Molyneux [1891-1974] Paris, France, 1939 (1939-1948); (Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York, NY, September 16, 1948, sold to Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.) (1948); Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. [1889-1958], Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art (1948-1958); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1958-)
Accession Number
1958.39
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.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
