The Red Cape, also known as Madame Monet or The Red Kerchief, is an
oil-on-canvas snowscape by the French
Impressionist artist
Claude Monet. Painted around 1868 to 1878, it depicts Monet's wife,
Camille, passing outside a window dressed in a red cape as seen from inside a house. Monet created the painting while living in
Argenteuil and the solitary setting at his home there allowed him to paint in relative peace, as well as spend time with his family. It is Monet's only known snowscape painting featuring Camille. The Red Cape is now in the collection of the
Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, United States.Painting credit:
Claude Monet
