About This Artwork

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

Cliffs and Sea, Saint-Adresse, c. 1865

Black chalk on off-white laid paper
206 x 314 mm
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1987.56

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

City Art Museum of St. Louis, "Claude Monet: a loan exhibition," 25 September-22 October 1957, cat. 100; also traveled to The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, November 1- December 1,1957.

The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1 1988-July 24, 1989.

The Art Institute of Chicago, April 15, 1991 - October 15, 1991.

New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 46; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Claude Monet: 1840-1926," July 22-November 26, 1995, cat. 6, cat. by Charles F. Stuckey.

The Art Institute of Chicago, April 15, 2004 - July 1, 2004.

London, Royal Academy," Monet: Color and Line," March 13, 2007 - June 10, 2007; Williamstown, Clark Art Institute, June 23, 2007 - September 16, 2007.

Publication History

Richard Kendall (ed.), Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters (London, 1989) (ill.).

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 5 (Lausanne, 1991), p. 124, no. D421 (ill.).

Ownership History

The artist's son, Michel Monet (died 1966), Giverny [Wildenstein 1991]; Wildenstein and Company, New York, by 1951 [Wildenstein 1991, and correspondence with Wildenstein December 14, 2006 in curatorial file]; Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Davis, New York, 1951 [Wildenstein 1991, and Wildenstein correspondence]; sold to the Art Institute, 1987.