Claude Monet

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired directly from the artist on 31 October 1882)

Roll Collection (acquired from the above on 7 April 1883)

Lucien Sauphar, Paris 

Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 17 March 1936, lot 28 (consigned by the estate of the above) 

Louis Becquart, Lille 

Sotheby & Co., London, 29 April 1937, lot 50 (consigned by the above) 

Adolphe Tavernier, Paris (acquired at the above sale)

Dauré Collection, Perpignan 

Wildenstein & Co., New York (acquired from the above in 1959)

Rosalie and Lazarus Phillips, Montreal (acquired from the above in 1960) 

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1979)

Joan Michelman, New York

Acquired from the above on 23 August 1999 by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Monet, 1883, no. 39

Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, Normandy and Its Artists Remembered, 1994, fig. VII, p. 38, illustrated in color; p. 82 (titled Fishing Nets at Pourville Near Dieppe)

C. Dargenty, “Expositions des oeuvres de M. Monet,” Courrier de l’art, vol. III, no. 11, 15 March 1883, p. 127

Paul Labarrière, "Exposition de Claude Monet," Journal des artistes, 16 March 1883, p. 1 (titled Mer à Pourville) 

Phillipe Burty, "Les Paysages de M. Claude Monet," La République française, 27 March 1883, p. 3 (titled Rochers de Pourville) 

Oscar Reuterswärd, Monet, Stockholm, 1948, no. 65, p. 142; p. 143, illustrated (titled Nätgistorna i Pourville)

John Rewald, The History of Impressionism, New York, 1961, p. 469, illustrated (titled Fishing Nets at Pourville near Dieppe)

R. H. Hubbard, ed., European Paintings in Canadian Collections, Modern Schools, vol. II, Toronto, 1962, pl. XXI, illustrated; p. 43

Daniel Wildenstein, Monet Impressions, Lausanne, 1967, n.p., illustrated in color (titled Les Filets à Pourville) 

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Lausanne and Paris, 1979, no. 770, p. 15, illustrated in color; p. 82; p. 83, illustrated

Luigina Rossi Bortolatto and Janine Bailly-Herzberg, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Monet, 1870-1889, Paris, 1981, no. 243, p. 103; p. 104, illustrated

Nathalie Reymond, Claude Monet, Paris, 1992, pp. 237 and 350 

Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Cologne, 1996, no. 770, p. 288, illustrated in color

Daniel Wildenstein, Monet, or the Triumph of Impressionism, vol. I, Cologne, 1999, p. 180