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On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt

Painting of woman in a striped dress seated on the bank of a river, beneath a full, leafy tree, a boat at the shore and a village visible across the river.
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  • Painting of woman in a striped dress seated on the bank of a river, beneath a full, leafy tree, a boat at the shore and a village visible across the river.

Date:

1868

Artist:

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

About this artwork

Here Claude Monet’s future wife, Camille Doncieux, sits on an island in the Seine River, looking toward the hamlet of Gloton, next to the town of Bennecourt, from which she and Monet have presumably rowed. This is the only painting to survive from the brief period that the couple spent in Gloton, which the novelist Émile Zola recommended to Monet as a cheap rural retreat that was easily accessible from Paris. Pentimenti (visible traces of earlier painting beneath a layer or layers of paint) suggest that in an early stage of the painting, Camille held a bonneted child, presumably the couple’s baby, Jean.

Status

On View, Gallery 201

Department

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist

Claude Monet

Title

On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1868

Medium

Oil on canvas

Inscriptions

Inscribed, lower left: Cl. Monet / 1868

Dimensions

81.5 × 100.7 cm (32 1/16 × 39 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Potter Palmer Collection

Reference Number

1922.427

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