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.

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.

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.