![]() ![]() We got to see wonderful slides, like this one of Claude Monet’s painting of his first wife, Camille, when she was nineteen.Īnd here is Monet at twenty-five– perhaps as fetching as the more familiar photos we see of him in the Giverney gardens when he was in his eighties. It was great to hear her speak of sources of inspiration and ways she used letters – not many of Camille’s, who died young – and paintings, finding them a context. ![]() I like reading novels with art settings and who doesn’t want to learn more about Paris during the Impressionist era? I happened to be reading Claude and Camille by Stephanie Cowell when Peter saw that she’d be giving a talk titled Searching for Monet last Sunday at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Museum as part of the Windows on the Past series. ![]()
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