18 Claude Monet

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Description

Claude Monet
Falaise de Pourville
Signed Claude Monet and dated 96 (lower left)
Oil on canvas
65 by 92 cm
36.3 by 25.6 in.

Provenance

Adolphe Tavernier, Paris (sold: Georges Petit, March 6, 1900, lot 55)
Sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 15, 1907, lot 33
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, (acquired from the above sale)
Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York
Ferdinand Eberstadt, New York (acquired by 1963)
Mary V.T. Eberstadt, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (donated by the above in 1964 and sold: Sotheby's Parke Bernet, October 25, 1972, lot 6)
Private Collection

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition Claude Monet, 1898, no. 18
Prague, Société Manes, Pienture française au XIXe siècle, 1907, no 29
London, Grafton Galleries, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, 1912
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Monet, 1914, no 35
Boston, Brooks Reed Gallery, March 1922
Baltimore, Museum of Art, Modern French Art, 1925
Indianapolis, John Herron Art Institute, 1925
Poughkeepsie, Taylor Art Gallery, Vassar College, 1926

Literature

Charles Sterling & Margaretta M. Salinger, French Paintings, A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. III, New York, 1967, p. 140, illustrated
Douglas Cooper, 'The Monets in the Metropolitan Museum', Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. III, New York, 1970, p. 296, illustrated
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Lausanne, 1979, no. 1422, illustrated p. 193
Daniel Wildenstein, Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Munich, 1996, no. 1422, illustrated p.590