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Claude Monet (1840-1926), Mme Monet on Her Deathbed, 1879, French. Oil on canvas. 90 x 68 cm. Copyright Réunion de Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, New York, NY; Musée d'Orsay, Paris France/© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY/ADAGP, Paris, France.

Decades after the event, the elderly Claude Monet (1840-1926) recalled the complex emotions he had experienced while creating the posthumous portrait of his wife, Camille Doncieux (1847-1879). "I found myself staring at [my wife's] tragic countenance, automatically trying to identify the sequence, the proportion of light and shade in the colors that death had imposed on [her] immobile face. Shades of blue, yellow, gray, and I don't know what. . . . In spite of myself, my reflexes drew me into the unconscious operation that is but the daily order of my life. Pity me, my friend."

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