About This Artwork

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

Caricature of Léon Manchon, c. 1855-1856

Charcoal, with stumping, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper (discolored to gray)
612 x 452 mm
Signed lower right: "O. Monet"
Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection, 1933.888

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Claude Monet: 1840-1926," July 22-November 26, 1995, cat. 1a, cat. by Charles F. Stuckey.

Publication History

Charles F. Stuckey, Claude Monet: 1840-1926 (Chicago, 1995), pp. 23 and 187, no. 1a.

Iris Magazine (Eaglemoss Publications Limited, 1996).

Erimi Fujiwara, The Weekly Museum (Shogakukan, 2000).

Ownership History

Sold by Henri Cottereau, Paris, to Carter H. Harrison (1860-1953), Chicago, winter 1927-1928 [as per Harrison collection notes]; given to the Art Institute, 1933.