# Madame Monet Reading "Le Figaro"

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## Artwork

- Artist: [RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/renoir-pierre-auguste-r5afa2bfca6b14e>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 54 x 72 cm

## Commentary

In this small private portrait it would seem the painter surprised Madame Monet at home in Argenteuil, lying on the sofa reading the paper. Without troubling to adopt any more formal pose, she is gazing calmly at the artist with her fine, dark eyes. This was a natural, unstudied scene precisely observed.

## Related artworks

- [A Box at the Theater \(At the Concert\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/renoir-pierre-auguste-r5afa2bfca6b14e/a-box-at-the-theater-at-the-concert-r3d73c3cfafe225>)
- [Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/renoir-pierre-auguste-r5afa2bfca6b14e/acrobats-at-the-cirque-fernando-r3e584eea8bcd3a>)
- [After the Bath](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/renoir-pierre-auguste-r5afa2bfca6b14e/after-the-bath-r0ee2a58ef7fc88>)
- [At the Luxembourg Garden](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/renoir-pierre-auguste-r5afa2bfca6b14e/at-the-luxembourg-garden-r2c98d101dade5c>)
- [At the Theatre \(La Première Sortie\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/renoir-pierre-auguste-r5afa2bfca6b14e/at-the-theatre-la-premire-sortie-ra4574a40cb07a2>)
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- [Bather Arranging her Hair](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/renoir-pierre-auguste-r5afa2bfca6b14e/bather-arranging-her-hair-r725f2f4160635a>)
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- [Bather](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/renoir-pierre-auguste-r5afa2bfca6b14e/bather-rcacf73894ba7f5>)
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- [Bouquet of Chrysanthemums](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/renoir-pierre-auguste-r5afa2bfca6b14e/bouquet-of-chrysanthemums-re4f9cbda18cd72>)
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## Attribution

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