# The Red Kerchief

- By: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
- Date: c. 1868–73
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Framed: 128.3 x 105.7 x 14.6 cm (50 1/2 x 41 5/8 x 5 3/4 in.); Unframed: 99 x 79.8 cm (39 x 31 7/16 in.)
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit line: Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.39)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.39/1958.39_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This painting depicts Monet's first wife, Camille, outside on a snowy day passing by the French doors of their home at Argenteuil. Her face is rendered in a radically bold Impressionist technique of mere daubs of paint quickly applied, just as the snow and trees are defined by broad, broken strokes of pure white and green.