Full-length woman in an embroidered red robe, looking over her shoulder with a fan raised, before a wall of fans

La Japonaise

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What you see

Camille stands with her back half turned and looks over her shoulder at us with a smile. With one hand she raises a folding fan beside her face. The long train of her robe spreads across the floor, giving the figure a wide base. Behind her, round fans seem to float on a grey-blue wall, and two more lie on the floor.

The intense red dominates and plays against the cool background. The embroidery steals the show: green and gold leaves across the chest and, at hip level, a fierce-faced warrior gripping a sword, so vivid he seems to step out of the fabric. Take a moment with the tiny figures painted on the fans on the wall.

About Claude Monet

Claude Monet went outdoors to paint light exactly as he saw it at each moment. He painted the same place many times, in the morning, at noon or in fog, to show how colours change. In his garden at Giverny he created a water-lily pond that he painted for thirty years.

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