While we do not know his specific intentions with this subject, Monet appears to highlight the artificiality of the Japonisme phenomenon in this large-scale portrait of his wife Camille.Recent collaboration between MFA staff and colleagues in Japan has revealed the subject of the robe’s decoration: a Japanese fable about a leaf-peeping samurai who encounters a beautiful woman and soon realizes she is actually a demon.Take a closer look at "La Japonaise (Camille Monet in Japanese Costume" (1876) with curator Julia Welch 🔍 ⁣The painting is one of the 25 masterpieces by the artist featured in "Monet and Boston: Legacy Illuminated," on view through October 17: https://bit.ly/2Wm7iW8 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston