Caricature of a Man with a Big Cigar

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Prints and Drawings

1855/56

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Claude Monet
Title: Caricature of a Man with a Big Cigar
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.: 1855–1856
Medium: Black, white, and colored chalks on blue wove paper
Inscriptions: Not signed
Dimensions: Primary/secondary/tertiary supports: 59.8 × 38.5 cm (23 9/16 × 15 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection
Reference Number: 1933.890
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Hugh Edwards, “The Caricatures of Claude Monet,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 37, 1 (Jan. 1943), p. 71.
Raymond Cogniat, Monet and His World (Viking, 1966), pp. 10 (ill.), 131.
Charles Merrill Mount, Monet, A Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1966), p. 396.
Pierre Georgel, “Monet, Bruyas, Vacquerie et le Panthéon Nadar,” Gazette des beaux-arts 72 (Dec. 1968), p. 331.
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet (Fratelli Fabbri, 1971), p. 93 (ill.), no. 54.
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), pp. 71–72, no. 4B7.
“Cat. 4: Caricature of a Man with a Big Cigar,” 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.
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 5, Supplément aux peintures: Dessins; Pastels; Index (Wildenstein Institute, 1991), p. 144, no. D490 (ill.).
Ann Waldron, Claude Monet: First Impressions (Abrams, 1991), pp. 8 (ill.), 90.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Carter H. Harrison Memorial Exhibition, Nov. 19, 1954–Feb. 1, 1955, checklist no. 28.
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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