Caricature of a Man in the Small Hat

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Prints and Drawings

1855/56

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Claude Monet
Title: Caricature of a Man in the Small Hat
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: Graphite on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed on top: "Claude Monet"
Dimensions: 19.8 × 14.9 cm (7 13/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection
Reference Number: 1933.892
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Hugh Edwards, “The Caricatures of Claude Monet,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 37, 1 (Jan. 1943), p. 71.
John Rewald, The History of Impressionism (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1946), p. 34 (ill.).
Raymond Cogniat, Monet and His World (Viking, 1966), pp. 9 (ill.), 131.
Charles Merrill Mount, Monet, a Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1966), p. 396.
Mitsuhiko Kuroe, Monet (Shueisha, 1970), p. 86 (ill.).
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet (Fratelli Fabbri, 1971), p. 92 (ill.), no. 48.
John Rewald, History of Impressionism (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1973), p. 39 (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. 4B2.
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 5, Supplément aux peintures: Dessins; Pastels; Index (Wildenstein Institute, 1991), p. 145, cat. D496 (ill.).
“Cat. 3: Caricature of a Man in a Small Hat,” 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.

Cat. 3 Caricature of a Man in a Small Hat, 1855/56

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