Madame Monet Sitting on a Sofa

Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926): Meditation, Madame Monet Sitting on a Sofa c.1870-71 (Oil on canvas) - For a portrait of a young woman by a loving husband, it is a quite remarkably gloomy piece… Camille sits listlessly, despondently, her book fallen on her lap as she meditates. She wears an austere black dress, all the more somber in contrast to the dazzling light in the net curtain and on the white floral sofa. There is a sense that she is trapped in her bourgeois interior…