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Claude Monet and William Merritt Chase - Japanese Costumes
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Japanese decoration, kimonos and printings were usual in the late nineteenth-century in Europe and America and it was a cult that originated the word Japanism.
The right Monet "Madame Monet in Japanese Costume", 1876, is quite unique and surprising. It's at Bostom Museum. Large version here.
Left: Girl in a Japanese Costume, William Merritt Chase, 1890