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Woman in the Garden

1866/7 painting by Claude Monet

Not to be confused with Women in the Garden.

Woman in the Garden (French: Femme au jardin) (or Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre in the Garden) is a painting begun in 1866 by Claude Monet when he was a young man of 26. The work was executed en plein air in oil on canvas with a relatively large size of 82 by 101 cm. and currently belongs in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia.[1]

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The woman in the painting is Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre, the young wife of his well-to-do cousin Paul-Eugene Lecadre. The Lecadres lived at Le Havre and had a country house, Le Coteau, in nearby Sainte-Adresse, in the garden of which the painting was made during a short visit.[2] X-ray analysis has revealed that it was actually painted over a previous picture.[3]

The style of the painting is quite composed and detailed, unlike the typically impressionist works for which Monet was later acclaimed. Three principal objects, Jeanne-Marguerite, the central flowering rose bush in the bed of bright red flowers and the flowering bush on the right provide an ordered structure and Jeanne-Marguerite's bright white dress contrasts vividly with the reds, pinks and greens of the garden plants and trees. The subject matter foreshadowed Monet's lifelong passion for painting flowers and gardens in a natural setting.

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References

  1. [1]
    "Woman in the Garden. Sainte-Adresse". Hermitage Museum. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Monet Across Three Decades: From Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre in the Garden to Meadows at Giverny". Culturedarm. 31 January 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  3. [3]
    Brodskaya, Nathalia. Claude Monet. p. 54.
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