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Woman Reading
By Monet

A Woman Reading

Oil on canvas, 1871

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This tender portrait, a Woman Reading, is a rarity in Monet’s auvre, resembling more of the genre of portrait favoured by Manet, Degas or James Tissot. It shows the young Camille in contemplative mood, and the setting is of the family’s London home.

Although Monet had arrived in England almost penniless, with assistance from the dealer Durand-Ruel he was able to rent a comfortably furnished apartment in Kensington. Their stay in London was on the whole a happy one, except for the news from France, which told of the defeat of the French Army, the death of Bazille, and the establishment of the Commune.

With his financial problems taken care of, Monet was able to devote himself wholeheartedly to painting. This portrait of Camille reading was one of the first products of his eight months in London. There are also views of the Thames, of Hyde Park, the Port of London and the Houses of Parliament. Such was the affection Monet developed for the look of the city that he returned there on at least seven occasions between 1870 and 1901, in all producing more than one hundred canvases of the English capital.

This charming portrait was submitted by Durand-Ruel to the International Exhibition in South Kensington; he bought it subsequently for 500 francs, although not until two years later. The canvas was then acquired by a close of Marcel Proust, the Princesse de Montbeliard (later the Princesse de Polignac) who in turn sold it at auction in 1899.

The canvas was bought by the collector Raymond Koechlin for 5,700 francs, and he left it to the Louvre in 1931, together with a number of other Impressionist art masterpieces.

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