About This Artwork

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

Vétheuil, 1901

Oil on canvas
35 1/2 x 36 3/4 in. (90.2 x 93.4 cm)
Inscribed lower left: Claude Monet 1901
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection, 1933.447

Wildenstein, Claude Monet, cat rais. 1996 1643; Wildenstein, Claude Monet, biographie et catalogue raisonné, 1979 1643

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Edinburgh, Scotland, National Gallery of Scotland, "Monet: The Seine and the Sea," Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland, 6 August 2003 – 26 October 2003.

Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 82 (ill.).

Publication History

Georges Riat, “Petites Expositions: Expositions de Sisley et de MM. Monet et Camille Pissarro,” La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité 8 (February 22, 1902), p. 59.

A. Alexandre, “La Vie Artistique II, Expostition Monet-Pissarro,” Le Figaro (February 27, 1902), p. 5.

Charles Saunier, “Gazette d’art: Monet, Pissarro, Sisley,” La Revue Blanche (March 1, 1902), pp. 385, 386.

Edmond Pilon, “Carnet des Oeuvres et des Hommes, plusieurs paysagistes,” La Plume 310 (15 March, 1902), pp. 411-413.

Tabarant, “La Curiosité,” Bulletin de la Vie Artistique (February 15, 1922), p. 89.ILL, 10.26.07

Le Journal des Arts (March 18, 1922), p. 1

Le Journal des Arts (March 25, 1922), p. 2.

Daniel Catton Rich, Französische Impressionisten in Art Institute zu Chicago,” Pantheon (March 1933), p. 77.

Lionello Venturi, Les Archives de l’Impressionisme vol. 1 (Paris and New York, 1939), p. 378.

Katherine Kuh, Art Has Many Faces: The Nature of Art Presented Visually (New York, 1951), pp. 52, 53 fig. 83 (ill.) as Vétheuil at Sunset.

A.C., “Homage to Claude Monet,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51, 2 (April 1, 1957), p. 24 as Vétheuil.

Art Institute, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 321 as Vetheuil, 1901.

A. James Speyer, “Twentieth-Century European Painting and Sculpture,” Apollo 84, 55 (September 1966), p. 222 as Vétheuil, 1901.

El Mundo de los Museos, The Art Institute of Chicago (Madrid, 1967), p. 57 (ill.).

Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Bibliographie et catalogue raisonné vol. 4 (Lausanne, 1985), pp. 200, 201 (ill.), 359, 360, 427, no. 1643 (ill.).

Andrew Forge, Monet (Chicago, 1995), pp. 60-61, 97, 109 cat. 26 (ill.) as Vétheuil, 1901.

Claude Monet, Saber/Ver Arte y Recreación 12 (February 1998).

Museum of Fine Arts and Royal Academy of Arts, Monet in the 20th Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, 1998), pp. 9, 39 fig. 13 (ill.) as Vétheuil, 1901.

The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 82, pp. 162-163 (ill.).

Ownership History

Bought from the artist by Boussod, Valadon et Cie, February 1902 [this and the following information acc. to Wildenstein]; sold to Rosenberg, 1903. Alfred Savoir Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, March 22, 1922, lot 16; sold to Durand-Ruel. Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn, Chicago, 1926; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.