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Painting · 1875

Woman with a Parasol

Claude Monet · National Gallery of Art, Washington

Woman with a Parasol by Claude Monet

Palette

Monet painted Camille and their son Jean outdoors, probably in a single session of a few hours. The sky is quick strokes of blue and grey with bare canvas showing, and the white dress is barely white: it is pale blues and greys, with dabs of yellow reflected from the buttercups below. We still read it as a white dress in sunlight, which is color-constancy at work.

Image

Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (CC0)

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