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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Geroges Petit, 6e exposition internationale de peinture, 1887, not listed in cat.

Boston, Copley Hall, Exhibition of Works of Claude Monet, 1905, cat. 18.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings Form the Collection of Mrs. Potter Palmer, 1910, cat. 33.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 290A.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, cat. 207.

Toledo, Ohio, Museum of Art, French Impressionist and Post Impressionists, November, 1934, cat. 9.

St. Louis, City Art Museum, Claude Monet, September 25–October 22, 1957, cat. 58 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, March 15–May 11, 1975, cat. 64 (ill.).

Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Hommage à Monet (1840–1926), February 8–March 5, 1980, cat. 88 (ill.).

Paris, Centre Culturel du Marais, Claude Monet au temps de Giverny, April 6–July 17, 1983, cat. 7 (ill.).

Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces From The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18–December 17, 1985, cat. 42 (ill.); traveled to Fukuoka, Art Museum, January 5–February 2, 1986; Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, March 4–April 13, 1986.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet 1840-1926, July 22-November 26, 1995, cat.77 (ill.).

Forth Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Monet and the Mediterranean, June 8-September 7, 1997, cat. 74 (ill.); traveled to New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, October 10, 1997-January 4, 1998.

Portland Museum of Art, Impressions of the Riviera: Monet, Renoir, Matisse and Their Contemporaries, June 25-October 18, 1998, cat. 50 (ill.).

Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 47 (ill.).

Publication History

G. Geffroy, “Salon de 1887: Hors du Salon: Cl. Monet,” La Justice (June 2, 1887), pp. 1-2.

G. Geffroy, “Histoire de l’Impressionnisme,” La Vie artistique 3 sér., 2 (1894), p. 70.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings vol. 2 (August 1920), p. 65, no. 761.

M. C., “Monet in the Art Institute,” The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 19 (1925), p. 19.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings (1932), p. 164.

Florent Fels, Claude Monet (Paris, 1925), p. 51 (ill.).

George Slocombe, “Giver of Light,” Coronet 3, 5 (March, 1938), p. 25 (ill.).

Sir Kenneth Clark, Landscape into Art (London, 1949), pp. 93, 94, pl. 83 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1956), p. 34

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 319.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Quarterly 51, 2 (April, 1957), p. 30 (ill.).

Rodolphe Walter, “Charles Garnier et Claude Monet à Bordighera, L’Oeil (January–February, 1977), no. 258–259, pp. 22–27, fig. p. 26.

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné (Lausanne, 1974), p. 114, no. 854 (ill.).

John House, Monet: Nature Into Art (New Haven and London, 1986), pp.195-96 (ill.).

Richard R. Brettell, French Impressionists (Chicago, 1987), ill.

Rachel Barnes, ed., Monet by Monet: Artists by Themselves (Exeter, 1990), pp. 42-43 (ill.).

Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné vol. 2 (Cologne, 1996), no. 854 (ill.).

The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 47, pp. 106-07 (ill.).

Ownership History

Bought from the artist by I. Montaignac for Knoedler and Co., New York in September 1891 [according to Wildenstein 1996]; sold to Potter Palmer, Chicago in September 1891 [according to Wildenstein 1996]; by descent in the Palmer family; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.