About This Artwork

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

Sandvika, Norway, 1895

Oil on canvas
28 7/8 x 36 3/8 in. (73.4 x 92.5 cm)
Inscribed, lower left: Claude Monet 95
Gift of Bruce Borland, 1961.790

Wildenstein, Claude Monet, biographie et catalogue raisonné, 1979 1397

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Possibly Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Exposition de Tableaux de Claude Monet, 1895, cats. 29-36.

Boston, Copley Hall, Monet, 1905, cat. 90.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures of Chicago Collectors, May 20-June 30, 1961, no cat. no.

Sonja Henie-Niels Onstad Kunstsenter, Impresjonismen 100 ar, October 1974-January 1975, cat. 10 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, March 15-May 11, 1975, cat. 94 (ill.).

Paris, Centre Culturel du Marais, Claude Monet au temps de Giverny, April 6-July 17, 1983, cat. 30 (ill.).

Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18-December 17, 1985, cat. 60 (ill), traveled to Fukuoka Museum of Art, January 5-February 2, 1986 and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4-April 13, 1986.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Monet, 1840-1926, July 22-November 26, 1995, cat.107 (ill.).

Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Monet in Norway, January 26-April 8, 1996, no cat. no. (ill.).

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Impressionism and the North, September 25, 2002-January 11, 2003, cat. 149 (ill.), traveled to Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, February 21-May 25, 2003.

Publication History

John Rewald, C. Pissarro: Lettres à son fils Lucien (Paris, 1950), p. 467.

Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Biographie et catalogue rasonné vol. 3 (Lausanne, 1974), no. 1397 (ill.).

Joel Isaacson, Claude Monet: Observation and Reflection (Oxford, 1978), no. 114 (ill.).

Russell Ash, ed., Impressionists’ Seasons (London, 1995), p. 79 (ill.).

Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné vol. 3 (Cologne, 1996), no. 1397 (ill.).

Ownership History

Sisley sale, Paris, Georges Petit, May 1, 1899, lot 65; sold to Durand-Ruel and Bernheim [according to Wildenstein 1996]. Mrs. John J. Borland, Boston by 1901 [according to Wildenstein 1996]; by descent to Bruce Borland by 1961; given to the Art Institute, 1961.