Object Information

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

Waterloo Bridge, Gray Weather, 1900

Oil on canvas
25 3/4 x 36 3/8 in. (65.4 x 92.6 cm)
Signed, l.l.: "Claude Monet"
Gift of Mrs. Mortimer B. Harris, 1984.1173

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Durand-Ruel, Monet, vues de la Tamíse, June 1904, no. 9; traveled to Berlin, Cassirer Gallery, no.5.

Chicago, Art Institute, Treasures of Chicago Collectors, April 15–July 5, 1961.

Chicago, Art Institute, Masterpieces from Private Collections in Chicago, July 12–August 21, 1979.

Toyko, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Monet, A Retrospective, February 11–April 7, 1994; traveled to Nagoya, City Art Museum, April 16–June 12, 1994; and Hiroshima, Museum of Art, June 18–July 31, 1994.

Shelburne, Vermont, Shelburne Museum, June 1–December 31, 1995.

Publication History

R. de Bettex, “Échos de partout. Claude Monet,” La République française, May 10, 1904, p. 1.

L. Venturi, Les Archives de l’impressionnisme, Paris-New York 1939, vol 2. I, p. 393.

D. Wildenstein, Monet, vie et oevre, v. 4 (Lausanne-Paris, 1985), pp. 170, 171 (ill.), 365, 427.

D. Wildenstein, Monet, vie et oevre, v. 5 (Lausanne-Paris, 1985), p. 52.

Ownership History

Durand-Ruel, Paris, acquired from artist, June 1904. Cassirer Gallery, Berlin, by June 1904–possibly May 1917. Albrecht Guttmann, Berlin, May 18, 1917, no. 69. Mr. Howard Young, New York. Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago. Anderson Gallery, Chicago. William Redfield, Chicago, by c. 1927; given to Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer B. Harris, by 1930s. Gift to Art Institute, 1984.