About Woman with a Parasol
Claude Monet painted Woman with a Parasol, Madame Monet and Her Son in 1875 at Argenteuil, near Paris, where the family lived. The woman is his wife, Camille, and the boy in the distance is their son, Jean. We look up at Camille from below, as she stands on a hillside against a bright, windy sky.
The painting feels like a snapshot of a summer walk. The wind catches her veil and her white dress, and the long grasses bend around her. Monet painted quickly, out of doors, with loose strokes of color, and he captured the light coming through the parasol and the shadows falling across her dress.
Monet exhibited the painting at the second Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1876. Today it belongs to the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
Tips for this puzzle
The blue sky with its white clouds covers much of the canvas, so build the figure first: the green parasol, the white dress and the boy in the grass. The grassy slope at the bottom gives the lower edge pieces.
Claude Monet, Woman with a Parasol, 1875. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Public domain (PD-Art); image: commons.wikimedia.org. Image source. All image credits
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