Woman in the Garden

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Woman in the Garden
Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre in the Garden
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Artist Claude Monet   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Year1867
Medium oil paint, canvas
Movement Impressionism   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Dimensions82 cm (32 in) × 101 cm (40 in)
Location Hermitage Museum, Russia OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Accession No.ГЭ-6505  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

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]

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. "Woman in the Garden. Sainte-Adresse". Hermitage Museum. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  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. Brodskaya, Nathalia. Claude Monet. p. 54.