Which museum in Boston owns Claude Monet’s painting La Japonaise?

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston owns Claude Monet’s painting La Japonaise.

Monet exhibited La Japonaise, also known as La Japonaise: Camille Monet in Japanese Costume, at the second Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1876. The large painting shows Camille Doncieux wearing a decorated red kimono and standing before a wall filled with Japanese fans.

The work reflects the nineteenth-century European fascination with Japanese art, often called Japonisme. Monet collected Japanese woodblock prints, and their influence can be seen in the painting’s fan arrangement, bold patterning, and unusual decorative emphasis.

The painting is sometimes confused with Monet’s later scenes of his Giverny garden, but La Japonaise is a figure painting made decades earlier. Camille, Monet’s first wife, is the model. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston lists the work among its important nineteenth-century European paintings.