Caricature of Jules Didier (“Butterfly Man”)

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1858

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Claude Monet
Title: Caricature of Jules Didier (“Butterfly Man”)
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1857–1860
Medium: Black and white chalks on blue laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed lower right: "O. Monet"
Dimensions: 61.6 × 43.6 cm (24 5/16 × 17 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection
Reference Number: 1933.889
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Hugh Edwards, “The Caricatures of Claude Monet,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 37, 1 (Jan. 1943), pp. 71–72 (ill.).
Charles Merrill Mount, Monet, a Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1966), pp. 33; following p. 190 (ill.); 396.
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet (Fratelli Fabbri, 1971), pp. 84, 93, no. 52 (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. 72, no. 4B8.
Ralph E. Shikes and Steven Heller, The Art of Satire: Painters as Caricaturists and Cartoonists from Delacroix to Picasso (Pratt Graphics Center/Horizon, May 1, 1984), p. 30 (ill.).
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Andrew Forge, Monet, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago, 1995), pp. 8; 9, fig. 1.
Margaret A. Sullivan, “Caricature/Cartoon,” in Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography, vol. 1, ed. Helene E. Roberts (Dearborn, 1998), p. 162.
Alison Syme, A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-Siècle Art (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 4; 5, fig. 3.
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New York, Wildenstein and Company, “A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet for the Benefit of the Children of Giverny,” Apr. 11–May 12, 1945, p. 58, cat. 81.
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Carter H. Harrison Memorial Exhibition,” Nov. 19, 1954–Feb. 1, 1955, checklist no. 27.
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Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, “The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings,” June 24–Sept. 16, 2007, pp. 49–51, fig. 52; 53; 300; London, Royal Academy, Mar. 17–June 10, 2007.
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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