Which Impressionist painter painted 'La Japonaise'?

Claude Monet painted La Japonaise in 1876.

The oil painting shows Monet’s wife, Camille Doncieux, standing full-length in a richly decorated red kimono. She wears a blonde wig and holds a folding fan, while Japanese fans fill the background. The work reflects Japonisme, the strong French fascination with Japanese art and design that shaped European visual culture in the late nineteenth century.

Monet exhibited La Japonaise at the second Impressionist exhibition in 1876. He was interested not only in Japanese imagery but also in the painting’s commercial appeal: Japonisme was fashionable in Paris, and Monet was experiencing financial pressure. The picture therefore combines portraiture, theatrical costume and market-conscious subject matter.

The painting is sometimes confused with works by Mary Cassatt or Edgar Degas that also explore Japanese prints and decorative design. La Japonaise is now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where it remains one of Monet’s most recognizable paintings of Japonisme.