About This Artwork

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

Rocks at Port-Goulphar, Belle-Ile, 1886

Oil on canvas
26 x 32 3/16 in. (66 x 81.8 cm)
Inscribed lower right: Claude Monet 86
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland, 1964.210

Wildenstein, Claude Monet, cat rais. 1996 1095; Wildenstein, Claude Monet, biographie et catalogue raisonné, 1979 1059

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Ghent, 36e Exposition des Beaux-Arts, 1895 [acc. to Wildenstein]

Boston, Copley Hall, Loan Collection of Paintings by Claude Monet, 1905, cat. 75, as Belle-Isle, 1886.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, March 15-May 11, 1975, p. 30, cat. 71 (ill.), as Rocks at Belle Ille, 1886.

Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 49 (ill.).

Publication History

R. Réfamey, “La Formation de Claude Monet,” in Gazette des Beaux-Arts (February 1927), p. 77, as Belle-Ile, Rochers de Goulphar, 1886.

L. Venturi, Archives des Impresionnisme (Paris, 1939), vol. 1, p. 347.

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné vol. 2 (Paris, 1974), p. 200 cat. 1095 (ill.), as Belle-Île, Rochers de Port-Goulphar, 1886.

Denise Delouche, “Monet et Belle-Ile en 1886,” Bulletin des Amis du Musée de Rennes 4 (1980), pp. 27-55.

Steven Z. Levine, “Seascapes of the Sublime: Vernet, Monet, and the Oceanic Feeling,” New Literary History (Baltimore, 1985), pp. 378-400.

Charles F. Stuckey, Monet: A Retrospective (New York, 1985), pp. 127-128.

Denise Delouche, Monet à Belle-Ile (1992), p. 54, 55 (ill.), as Belle-Ile, rochers de Port-Goulphar, 1886.

Andrew Forge, Monet (Chicago, 1995), pp. 37-39, 83, 106 pl. 12 (ill.), as Rocks at Belle-Ile, 1886.

Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné (Cologne, 1996), no. 1095 (ill.), as Belle-Ile, Rocks at Port Goulphar, 1886.

The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 49, p. 109 (ill.).

Ownership History

Bought from the artist by Durand-Ruel, December 1892 [this and the following information according to Wildenstein 1996]. Mrs. John Jay Borland, 1897; Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland by 1963; given to the Art Institute, 1964.