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.

Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 84 (ill.).

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.).

The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 84, p. 165 (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.