Caricature of a Man Standing by Desk (recto); Sketch of Male Head in Profile (verso)

1855/56

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

Status: On View, Regenstein Hall
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Claude Monet
Title: Caricature of a Man Standing by Desk (recto); Sketch of Male Head in Profile (verso)
Origin: France
Date: 1855–1856
Medium: Graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 203 × 166 mm
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection
Reference Number: 1933.894
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Hugh Edwards, “The Caricatures of Claude Monet,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 37, 1 (Jan. 1943), p. 71.
Charles Merrill Mount, Monet, a Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1966), p. 396.
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet (Fratelli Fabbri, 1971), p. 92, no. 49 (ill.).
Rodolphe Walter, “Claude Monet as a Caricaturist: A Clandestine Apprenticeship,” trans. Eric Young, Apollo 103 (June 1976), p. 489.
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), p. 70, no. 4A12.
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 5, Supplément aux peintures: Dessins; Pastels; Index (Wildenstein Institute, 1991), p. 145, no. D497 (ill.).
“Cat. 7: Caricature of a Man Standing by a Desk (recto) and Sketch of a Male Head in Profile (verso),” in Monet Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Gloria Groom and Jill Shaw (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014), https://publications.artic.edu/monet/reader/paintingsanddrawings/section/135470.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Monet and Chicago,” Sept. 5, 2020-June 14, 2021.

Alfred Dussueil (1878–1927), Paris [Wildenstein 1991 and Durand-Ruel Archives]. Sold by Henri Cottereau, Paris, to Carter H. Harrison (1860–1953), Chicago, winter 1927–28 [Carter H. Harrison, “A brief statement of where and how I acquired the various items in the collection of drawings I have given to the Art Institute… . ,” Oct. 18, 1934]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

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