In an article (a trailer for her forthcoming #Monet biography), Jackie Wullschlager makes the claim (which sounds plausible, certainly), that he was the only major painter of his time not to paint nude women.

This is an interesting claim, given other major artists around this time (from Courbet before, via Picasso, to Matisse) all did...

This refusal to adopt one of the key subjects in #arthistory, makes me think of Monet a little differently & now I'm eager to read Wullschlager's biography...