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The Red Kerchief

The Red Kerchief

c. 1868–73
(French, 1840–1926)
Framed: 128.3 x 105.7 x 14.6 cm (50 1/2 x 41 5/8 x 5 3/4 in.); Unframed: 99 x 79.8 cm (39 x 31 7/16 in.)

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Madame Monet’s red cape draws the viewer’s attention beyond the glass of the French doors capturing her glance, a brief moment frozen in time. This painting was very special to Monet and he kept it with him for his entire life.

Description

This painting depicts Monet's first wife, Camille, outside on a snowy day passing by the French doors of their home at Argenteuil. Her face is rendered in a radically bold Impressionist technique of mere daubs of paint quickly applied, just as the snow and trees are defined by broad, broken strokes of pure white and green.
  • 1931-1939
    Michel Monet [1878-1966] Giverny, France, bequeathed from the artist's estate to his son, 1931
    1939-1948
    Edouard Molyneux [1891-1974] Paris, France, 1939
    1948
    (Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York, NY, September 16, 1948, sold to Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.)
    1948-1958
    Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. [1889-1958], Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1958-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Becker, Christoph. Monet's Garden. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2004. Reproduced: p. 25, fig. 9
    Geffroy, Gustave. Claude Monet, sa vie, son œuvre. Paris, FR: G. Crès et cie, 1922. Reproduced: opp. p. 140
    Trevise, Duc de. "Le Pelerinage de Giverny." Revue de l'Art Ancien et Moderne 51 (January-May 1927: 42-50. Reproduced: p. 45
    Fels, Florent. "Claude Monet or the Fading Luminary." Formes; An International Art Review 15 (May 1931): 74b-75. Reproduced: p. 74c
    Malingue, Maurice. Claude Monet. Monaco: Les Documents d'art, 1943. Reproduced: p. 63
    Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1946. Reproduced: p. 207
    Reuterswärd, Oscar. Monet: En konstnärshistorik. Stockholm: Bonniers, 1948. Reproduced: p. 51
    Catalogue de reproductions en couleurs de la peinture de 1860 à ... = Catalogue of colour reproductions of painting from 1860 to ... = Catálogo de reproducciones en color de la pintura de 1860 a. Paris, France: Unesco, 1949. Reproduced: p. 234
    Besson, George. Claude Monet (1840-1926). Paris: Braun, 1949. Reproduced: pl. 28
    Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. Thesis M.A. Oberlin College, 1955. Reproduced: vol. 2, p. 75
    Cleveland Museum of Art. In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Reproduced: no. 23
    The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art XLVI no.6. (June, 1959): 123. Reproduced: p. 123
    Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), and William Chapin Seitz. Claude Monet: Seasons and Moments. New York. Museum of Modern Art. Catalogues. 1959-1963. 1960. Mentioned: cat. no. 13
    Gimpel, René. Journal d'un Collectionneur, Marchand de Tableaux. [Paris]: Calmann-Lévy, 1963. Reproduced: opp. p 78
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 174 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 174 archive.org
    Arnason, H. H. "Motherwell: The Window and the Wall." ARTnews 68 (Summer 1969): 48-50. Reproduced: p. 50; mentioned: p. 48
    Isaacson, Joel. Monet: Le Dejeuner Sur L'herbe. London, United Kingdom: Allen Lane the Penguin Press, 1972. Reproduced: p. 14
    Bortolatto, Luigina Rossi. L'opera Completa Di Claude Monet, 1870-1889. Milano: Rizzoli, 1972. Reproduced: no. 77
    Tsuji, Kunio, Yoshiaki Inui, and Shūji Takashina. Mone to inshōha = Monet et l'impressionnisme. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1972. Reproduced: no. 33
    Champa, Kermit Swiler. Studies in Early Impressionism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1973. Reproduced: p.31 fig. 40
    Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1973. Reproduced: p. 251
    Nordenfalk, Carl Adam Johan. "Outdoors-Indoors: A 2000-Year-Old Space Problem in Western Art." In Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 117, no. 4 (1973): 253-54, fig. 31. Reproduced: p. 253-254, fig. 31
    Wildenstein, Daniel. Claude Monet: biographie et catalogue raisonné. Lausanne, Switzerland: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1974. Reproduced: p. 257
    Monet, Claude, and Susan Wise. Paintings by Monet: [Exhibition] March 15 Through May 11, 1975, the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1975. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 26, p 24
    House, John. Monet. Oxford, United Kingdom: Phaidon; New York, NY, Dutton, 1977. Reproduced: no. 18
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 216 archive.org
    House, John. "The New Monet Catalogue." The Burlington Magazine 120, no. 907 (1978): 678-39. Mentioned: p. 680
    "Hommage a Monet." Le Petit Journal des Grandes Expositions 88 (1980): fig. 25. Reproduced: fig. 25
    Monet, Claude, Hélène Adhémar, Anne Distel, and Sylvie Patin. Hommage à Claude Monet (1840-1926): 1980, année du patrimoine, Grand Palais, 8 février - 5 mai 1980. Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des musée nationaux, Ministère de la culture et de la communication, 1980. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 25
    "Grand Palais, Paris; Exposition." L'Œil 297 (April, 1980): 74. Reproduced: p. 74
    House, John. Monet. Oxford, United Kingdom: Phaidon, NY, 1981. Reproduced: no. 8
    Borowitz, Helen O. "The Rembrandt and Monet of Marcel Proust." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art LXX, no. 2. (February, 1983):90. Reproduced: p. 90, fig. 16
    Keller, Horst. Claude Monet. München, Germany: Bruckmann, 1985. Reproduced: plate 44
    Kijima, Shunsuke, Kimio Nakayama, Yoshiaki Tōno, Makoto Ōoka, and Katsunori Miyauchi. Mone = Monet. Tōkyō, Japan: Shūeisha, 1985. Reproduced: p. 6
    Stuckey. Charles F. Monet: A Retrospective. New York, NY: 1985. Reproduced: p. 75, plate 27
    Taillandier, Yvon. Monet. New York, NY: Crown, 1987. Reproduced: p. 40
    Henning, Edward B. Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1987. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 95, cat. no. 2
    Sagner-Düchting, Karin. Claude Monet 1840-1926: ein Fest für die Augen. Köln, Germany: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1990. Reproduced: p. 68
    Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterpieces from East and West. New York, NY: Rizzoli International, 1992. Reproduced: p. 7-8
    Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Reproduced: p. 158
    Taylor, John Russell, Claude Monet: Impressions of France : from Le Havre to Giverny. London, United Kingdom: Collins & Brown, 1995. Reproduced: p. 70
    Tucker, Paul Hayes. Claude Monet: Life and Art. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. Mentioned: p. 66-68, Reproduced: pl. 75
    Stuckey, Charles F., Claude Monet, and Sophia Shaw. Claude Monet: 1840-1926. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995. Mentioned and Reproduced cat. no. 24, p. 244
    Pelfrey, Robert H. Art and Mass Media. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1996. Reproduced: p. 165, fig. 7.3
    Wildenstein, Daniel, Monet. Köln, Germany: Taschen, 1996. Reproduced: p. 90, vol. 1; p. 257, vol. 2
    Weiss, Susanne. Claude Monet: ein distanzierter Blick auf Stadt und Land : Werke 1859-1889. Berlin, Germany: Reimer, 1997. Reproduced: p. 55, fig. 15
    Moffett, Charles S. Impressionists in Winter: Effets De Neige. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection in collaboration with Philip Wilson Publishers, 1998. Reproduced: cat. no. 6
    Sallis, John. Shades--of Painting at the Limit. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998. Reproduced: p. 52, fig. 4
    Pittman, Dianne W. Bazille: Purity, Pose, and Painting in the 1860s. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 1998. Reproduced: p. 207, p. 209, fig. 131
    D Argencourt, Louise and Roger Diederen. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, Part Four; European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Reproduced: p. 155
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Mone, Runowāru to inshōha no fūkei: kaikan kinen dai ikkai kikakuten = Monet, Renoir, and the impressionist landscape. [Japan]: Nagoya Bosuton Bijutsukan, 1999. Reproduced: p. 28, fig. 28
    Johnston, Sona, Susan Bollendorf, and John House. Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections. Baltimore, Md: Baltimore Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International, 1999. Reproduced: p. 126-127
    Wildenstein, Daniel. Monet, or, The Triumph of Impressionism. Köln, Germany: Taschen, 1999. Reproduced: p. 90, cat. no. 257
    Johnston, Sona. Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections. New York, NY : Rizzoli, 1999. Reproduced: p. 127, cat. no. 44
    Knight, Lynne. Snow Effects: Poems on Impressionists in Winter. Concord, CA: Small Poetry Press, 2000. Reproduced: p. 24
    Jiminez, Jill Berk, and Joanna Banham. Dictionary of Artists' Models. London, United Kingdom: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. Reproduced: p. 167
    Norio Shimada, and Keiko Sakagami. Kurōdo Mone meigashū: hikari to kaze no kiseki. Tōkyō, Japan: Nihon Bijutsu Kyōiku Sentā, 2001. Reproduced: p. 123
    Clancy, John I. Impressionism: Historical Overview and Bibliography. New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2003. Reproduced: p. 20
    Burgess, Margaret, "The Colorful Mr. Hanna", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 45 no. 09, November 2005 Mentioned & reproduced: p.7 archive.org
    Borzello, Frances. At Home: The Domestic Interior in Art. London, United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson, 2006. Reproduced: p. 65
    Lambert, Stéphane. L'adieu au paysage: les nymphéas de Claude Monet. Paris, France: Différence, 2008. Reproduced: fig. 12
    Baillio, Joseph. Claude Monet, 1840-1926: Paris, Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais, September 22, 2010-January 24, 2011. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2010. Reproduced: p. 103, Mentioned: p. 254-255
    Braschi, Cecilia. "1840-1926. Monet, une Vie Dediee a la Peinture." Dossier de l'Art 177 (September 2010): 2-23. Reproduced: p. 21
    Marchesseau, Daniel. Monet au Musée Marmottan et dans les collections suisses ; Estampes japonaises, Fondation Claude Monet, Giverny. Martigny, Switzerland: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2011. Reproduced: p. 201, fig. 24
    Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, London, United Kingdom, Scala Publishers Ltd., 2012. Reproduced: p. 262-3
    Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 289
    Patin, Sylvie. Monet's Private Picture Gallery at Giverny: Paintings by Monet and His Friends. Montreuil, France: Gourcuff Gradenigo; Giverny: Éditions Claude Monet Giverny: Fondation Claude Monet, 2016. Reproduced: P. 12, 14, 16-17, 23
    Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 22
    Cachorro Fernandez, Emilio. "Habitaciones con Vistas. Pulsion Escopica A Traves de la Ventana". Archivo español de arte 88, issue 350 (April-June 2015): 157-172. Reproduced: p. 170, fig. 6
    Shackelford, George T. M., et. al. Monet: The Early Years. Fort Worth, TX: Kimball Art Museum, 2016. Mention: p. 107; 202 Reproduced: cover; p. 106, cat. 12
    Bortolatto, Luigina Rossi. Tout l'œuvre peint de Monet, 1870-1889. Paris: Flammarion, 1981. Reproduced: P. 93, fig. 78
    Widaur, Heinz. "From Pleinairism to Impressionism." In Claude Monet: A Floating World. Heinz Widauer and Dieter Buchhart, eds., 55-79. Vienna: The Albertina Museum, 2018. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 76-79, cat. 24
    Michael, Cora. "Gauguin in the the Buckeye and Hoosier States: Portrait of Teuraheimata and its Midwestern Collectors." In Paul Gauguin: Teuraheimata a Potoru, a Rediscovery, 11-19. New York: Jill Newhouse Gallery; [Akron, Ohio]: Thomas French Fine Art, 2019. Mentioned: P. 14
    Shackelford, George T. M. Monet: the Late Years. Fort Worth, Texas: Kimbell Art Museum; San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, New Haven; London: Distributed by Yale University Press, 2019. Reproduced: P. 15, 29
    Rubin, James Henry. Monet. 2020, 54. Mentioned and reproduced; pp. 53-54, fig. 37.
  • Claude Monet. Albertina, Wien, Austria (organizer) (September 21, 2018-January 6, 2019) https://www.albertina.at/en/exhibitions/monet/.
    Monet: The Early Years. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (organizer) (October 16, 2016-January 29, 2017); Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (February 25-May 29, 2017).
    Lend-Back - Painting the Modern Garden. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (organizer) (August 27, 2015-January 3, 2016).
    Claude Monet. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (September 20, 2010-January 24, 2011).
    Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (February 14-April 26, 2009).
    Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum, China (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).
    Monet's Garden. Kunsthaus Zürich, CH-8024 Zürich, Switzerland (organizer) (October 29, 2004-March 13, 2005).
    Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections. The Baltimore Museum of Art (organizer) (October 10, 1999-January 30, 2000); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (March 25-May 7, 2000); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 28-July 30, 2000).
    Impressionists in Winter: Effets de Neige. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (organizer) (September 19, 1998-January 3, 1999); Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Yerba Buena Gardens, CA (January 30-May 2, 1999); The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (May 27-August 29, 1999).
    Claude Monet: 1840-1926. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (July 14-November 26, 1995).
    Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987).
    Hommage a Claude Monet. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (February 9-May 5, 1980).
    Paintings by Monet. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (March 15-May 11, 1975).
    Claude Monet: Exposition rétrospective. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (1931).
    Claude Monet de 1865 à 1888. Durand-Ruel, Paris, France (1935).
    Five Centuries of History Mirrored in Five Centuries of French Art. World's Fair (Pavillon de la France), New York, NY (1939).
    A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet. Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY (1945).
    Claude Monet - Seasons and Moments. The Museum of Modern Art (March 7-May 15, 1960); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (June 14-August 7, 1960).
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