Claude Monet

Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris (acquired directly from the artist on 22 October 1887) 

Olivier Sainsère, Paris (acquired from the above on 27 March 1895)

Anne-Marie Sainsère, Paris (acquired by descent from the above circa 1923)

Jacques Sainsère, Paris (acquired by descent from the above circa 1945)

Monique Farjon, Paris (acquired by descent from the above circa 1960)

Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York (acquired in June 1964)

Private Collection, United States (acquired from the above in November 1964)

Private Collection, New York (acquired circa 2004)

Christie’s, New York, 5 November 2014, lot 15 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

William C. Seitz, Claude Monet, New York, 1960 (1982 reprint), no. 43, pp. 23 and 33; p. 35, illustrated (titled Rocks at Belle-Ile (Le Rocher du Lion))

Luigina Rossi Bortolatto, L'Opera completa di Claude Monet, 1870-1889, Milan, 1966 (1978 reprint), no. 305, p. 107, illustrated; p. 108 (titled Il Rocher du Lion à Belle-Île)

Daniel Wildenstein, Monet, Impressions, Paris, 1967, p. 45, illustrated in color (titled Le Rocher du Lion à Belle-Ile)

John Rewald, "Theo van Gogh, Goupil and the Impressionists," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. LXXXI, January-February 1973, appendix I, p. 98

Kirk Varnedoe, "Monet at Acquavella, New York," The Burlington Magazine, vol. 119, no. 987, February 1977, fig. 114, p. 153 (titled Le Rocher du Lion à Belle-Ile)

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Paris, 1979, no. 1092, p. 200, illustrated

Denise Delouche, "Monet et Belle-Ile en 1886," Bulletin des amis du musée de Rennes, no. 4, 1980, fig. 38, p. 49; p. 55, illustrated

Robert Gordon and Andrew Forge, Monet, New York, 1983, p. 114, illustrated; p. 291 (titled Côte Rocheuse, Rocher du Lion, Bell-Île)

Denise Delouche, Monet à Belle-Ile, Douarnenez, 1992, p. 52, illustrated 

Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, Cologne, 1996, no. 1092, p. 413, illustrated

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Exposition de tableaux Claude Monet de 1865 à 1888, 1935, no. 43 (titled Rocher du Lion, à Belle-Ile)

New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., Claude Monet, 1976, no. 45, pl. 45, illustrated in color (titled Le Rocher du Lion a Belle-Ile)

Potsdam, Museum Barberini, Impressionismus: Die Kunst der Landschaft, 2017, no. 12, p. 104, illustrated in color; p. 236

Museum Dordrecht, Jongkind & Vrienden, Monet, Boudin, Daubigny en anderen, 2017-18, p. 107, illustrated in color

Vienna, Albertina, Claude Monet, A Floating World, 2018-19, no. 51, p. 135, detail illustrated in color; p. 137, illustrated in color 

Giverny, Musée des impressionnismes, Monet—Auburtin: Une recontre artistique, 2019, no. 40, pp. 19 and 95; p. 99, illustrated in color