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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
    Claude Monet. The Beach at Sainte-Adresse, 1867. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000659

    The Beach at Sainte-Adresse

    by Claude Monet

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed lower right: Claude Monet 67

    Provenance

    The artist (d. 1926); sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Feb. 28, 1873, for 400 francs [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1868–73 (no. 2585, as Marine, temps gris), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]; probably sold to Jean-Baptiste Faure, Paris, by 1876 [per Wildenstein 1996; the Durand-Ruel Archives are unable to confirm Faure's purchase, see Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Jan. 9, 1893, for 7,000 francs [this and the following per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1891 (no. 2585, as Sainte-Adresse), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]; sold to Henri Véver, Paris, Jan. 17, 1893, for 8,000 francs; sold Henri Véver, Paris, sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Feb. 1–2, 1897, lot 79, to Boulley, as the agent for Georges Kohn, Paris, for 9,000 francs [per Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, sale cat. Feb. 1–2, 1897, the Durand-Ruel Archives also confirms that the painting was “acheté à G. Kohn (et non pas Kahn)”; see Paul-Louis Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]; sold jointly to Durand-Ruel, Paris, and Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, June 11, 1920, for 40,000 francs [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1921 (no. 11701, as Sainte-Adresse), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]; sold to Annie Swan Coburn, Chicago (d. 1932), Feb. 8, 1923 [per Durand-Ruel, New York, deposit book for 1894–1925 (no. 8044, as Sainte-Adresse), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, dated Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file, see also a letter on Durand-Ruel letterhead, Mar. 18, 1932, verifying that Coburn purchased the painting from Durand-Ruel] Bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

    Exhibition history

    Possibly London, Durand-Ruel, Eighth Exhibition of the Society of French Artists, spring 1874, cat. 142, as Ste Adresse near Havre. Paris, 11, rue Le Peletier, 2e exposition de peinture [second Impressionist exhibition], Apr. 1876, cat. 151, as La Plage à Sainte-Adresse. Appartient à M. Faure. Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Claude Monet—A. Rodin, June 21–Sept. 21, 1889, cat. 5, as Sainte-Adresse. 1867. Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, Apr. 6–Oct. 9, 1932, cat. 19 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 292. City Art Museum of St. Louis, Paintings by French Impressionists (1860–1880), Apr. 17–May 16, 1934, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934, cat. 210. Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, Nov. 1934, cat. 8 (paintings). Kansas City, Mo., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, French Impressionist Landscape Painting, Nov. 29–Dec. 30, 1936, cat. 23 (cover ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, June 30–July 31, 1945, no cat. Kunsthaus Zürich, Claude Monet: 1840–1926, May 10–June 15, 1952, cat. 11 (ill.); Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, June 19–July 17, 1952, cat. 8 (ill.); The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, July 24–Sept. 22, 1952, cat. 9 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1–June 15, 1957, no cat. no. City Art Museum of St. Louis, Claude Monet: A Loan Exhibition, Sept. 25–Oct. 22, 1957, cat. 4 (ill.); Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Nov. 1–Dec. 1, 1957. San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Painters by the Sea, July 1–30, 1961, no cat.; Santa Barbara (Calif.) Museum of Art, Aug. 8–Sept. 3, 1961. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15–May 11, 1975, cat. 10 (ill.). Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, Jongkind and the Pre-Impressionists: Painters of the Ecole Saint-Siméon, Oct. 15–Dec. 5, 1976, cat. 90 (ill.); Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Dec. 17, 1976–Feb. 13, 1977. Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Hommage à Claude Monet (1840–1926), Feb. 8–May 5, 1980, cat. 16 bis (ill.). Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27–Aug. 31, 1980, cat. 9 (ill.). Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–Sept. 16, 1984, cat. 6 (ill.); Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 23, 1984–Jan. 6, 1985; Paris, Galeries Nationales d’Exposition du Grand Palais, as L’impressionnisme et le paysage français, Feb. 4–Apr. 22, 1985. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874–1886, Jan. 17–Apr. 6, 1986, cat. 31 (ill.); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Apr. 19–July 6, 1986. Leningrad [St. Petersburg], Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great Paintings From the XIX century to the Beginning of the XXth century From Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago], March 15-May 19, 1988, cat. 27; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988. Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Impressionnisme: Les origines, 1859–1869, April 19–August 8, 1994, cat. 136; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Origins of Impressionism, September 27, 1994–January 8, 1995. Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, July 22–Nov. 26, 1995, cat. 12 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Manet and the Sea, Oct. 20, 2003–Jan. 19, 2004, cat. 97 (ill.); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Feb. 15–May 30, 2004; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, June 18–Sept. 26, 2004. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Monet in Normandy, June 17–Sept. 17, 2006, cat. 5 (ill.); Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Oct. 15, 2006–Jan. 14, 2007; Cleveland Museum of Art, Feb. 18–May 20, 2007 (Cleveland only). London, Royal Academy of Arts, Impressionists by the Sea, July 7–Sept. 30, 2007, cat. 32 (ill.); Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, Oct. 20, 2007–Jan. 13, 2008; Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Feb. 9–May 11, 2008. Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, Sept. 22, 2010–Jan. 24, 2011, cat. 16 (ill.). Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Monet/ Boudin, exh. cat. (Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2018), pp. 65, 130-131, 269, cat. 26 (ill). Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021, cat. 14. Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Foundation Corbound, A Revolution in Art: Paris 1863-1875, From Salon to Impressionism, Mar. 15–July 28, 2024.

    Publications

    Possibly “Notice of the Exhibition of the Society of French Artists, New Bond Street,” Times, Apr. 27, 1874. Reprinted in Kate Flint, ed., Impressionists in England: The Critical Reception (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984), p. 35. Possibly Durand-Ruel, London, Eighth Exhibition of the Society of French Artists, exh. cat. (Durand-Ruel, 1874), p. 11, cat. 142. Marius Chaumelin, “Actualités: L’exposition des intransigeants,” La gazette des étrangers, Apr. 8, 1876, pp. 1–2. Reprinted in Ruth Berson, ed., The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874–1886, Documentation, vol. 1,Reviews (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/University of Washington Press, 1996), p. 67. Catalogue de la 2e exposition de peinture [second Impressionist exhibition], exh. cat. (Alcan-Lévy, 1876), cat. 151. Emile Blémont, “Les impressionnistes,” Le rappel, Apr. 9, 1876, pp. 2–3. Reprinted in Ruth Berson, ed., The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874–1886, Documentation, vol. 1, Reviews (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/University of Washington Press, 1996), p. 63. Arthur Baignières, “Exposition de peinture par un groupe d’artistes, rue Le Peletier, II,” L’écho universel, Apr. 13, 1876, p. 3. Reprinted in Ruth Berson, ed., The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874–1886, Documentation, vol. 1, Reviews (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/University of Washington Press, 1996), p. 55. Pierre Dax, “Chronique,” L’artiste, May 1, 1876, p. 348. Reprinted in Ruth Berson, ed., The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874–1886, Documentation, vol. 1, Reviews (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/University of Washington Press, 1996), p. 70. Catalogue de la 2e exposition de peinture, exh. cat. (Alcan-Lévy, 1876), p. 15, cat. 151. Galerie Georges Petit, Claude Monet; A. Rodin, exh. cat. (Imp. de l’Art, 1889), p. 27, cat. 5. Reprinted in Theodore Reff, ed., Miscellaneous Group Exhibitions, Modern Art in Paris 34 (Garland, 1981), n.pag. Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Collection H. V.: Catalogue de tableaux modernes de premier ordre, pastels, aquarelles, dessins, sale cat. (Galerie Georges Petit, Feb. 1–2, 1897), p. 109, lot 79. Gustave Geffroy, “Claude Monet,” L’art et les artistes 2, 11 (Nov. 1920), p. 64 (ill.). Gustave Geffroy, Claude Monet: Sa vie, son temps, son oeuvre (G. Crès, 1922), pp. opp. 40 (ill.), 59, 62, 71, 118, 262. Camille Mauclair, Claude Monet (F. Rieder, 1924), p. 36, pl. 6. Translated by J. Lewis May as Claude Monet (Dodd, Mead, 1924), p. 42, pl. 6. Xenia Lathom, Claude Monet (Philip Allan, 1931), p. 47, pl. 6. Eleanor Jewett, “Noted Private Art Collection on Exhibition,” Chicago Daily Tribune, Apr. 6, 1932, p. 19 (ill.). “Masterpieces of the French Impressionists from the Collection of Mrs. L. L. Coburn Being Exhibited for the First Time at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Fine Arts 19, 1 (June 1932), p. 22 (ill.). Daniel Catton Rich, “The Bequest of Mrs. L. L. Coburn,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 26, 6 (Nov. 1932), pp. 66, 67 (ill.), 68. “Annie S. Coburn Estate Is Given $888,982 Value,” Chicago Daily Tribune, Nov. 19, 1932, p. 16. Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), pp. 18, no. 19; 47, no. 19. Daniel Catton Rich, “The Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection,” in Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 7. Art Institute of Chicago, Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago: Report for the Year Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Two 27, 3 (Mar. 1933), p. 24 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of “A Century of Progress”: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture; Lent from American Collections, ed. Daniel Catton Rich, 3rd ed., exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), p. 43, cat. 292. Roger Brielle, “Le visage de la France vu par nos artistes: III. La Normandie,” L’art et les artistes 28, 143 (Jan. 1934), p. 129 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of “A Century of Progress”: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1934, ed. Daniel Catton Rich, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1934), pp. 36–37, cat. 210. Toledo Museum of Art, Catalogue: French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, exh. cat. (Toledo Museum of Art, 1934), n.pag., cat. 8 (paintings). Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (Art Institute of Chicago, 1935), p. 28. William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, “Exhibition of French Impressionist Landscape Paintings,” William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts News Flashes 3, 2 (Dec. 1, 1936), p. 2. William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum, Exhibition: French Impressionist Landscape Painting, exh. cat. (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum, 1936), cover (ill.); p. 6, cat. 23. Lionello Venturi, Les archives de l’impressionnisme: Lettres de Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley et autres; Mémoires de Paul Durand-Ruel; Documents, vol. 2 (Durand-Ruel, 1939), p. 257. Art Institute of Chicago, “List of Exhibitions,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 39, 4 (Apr.–May 1945), p. 64. John Rewald, The History of Impressionism (Museum of Modern Art/Simon & Schuster, 1946), p. 137 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1948), p. 34. Oscar Reuterswärd, Monet: En konstnärshistorik (Bonniers, 1948), p. 281. Art Institute of Chicago, “Notes,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 34, 1 (Feb. 1949), p. 15. Kenneth Clark, Landscape into Art (John Murray, 1949), pp. xiii; 88, pl. 81. Daniel Catton Rich, “Midwest Art Capital,” Town and Country 105 (Mar. 1951), p. 75 (ill.). Kunsthaus Zürich, Claude Monet: 1840–1926, with a foreword by Georges Besson and René Wehrli, exh. cat. (Kunsthaus Zürich, 1952), pl. 4; p. 19, cat. 11. Haags Gemeentemuseum, Claude Monet, with an introduction by George Besson, exh. cat. (Gemeentemuseum, 1952), cat. 9 (ill.). Meyer Schapiro, Paul Cezanne (Abrams, 1952), pp. 11 (ill.), 12. Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, exh. cat. (Galerie Beaux-Arts, 1952), pp. 14, cat. 8 (ill.); 59. Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1956), p. 34. Art Institute of Chicago, “Homage to Claude Monet,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51, 2 (Apr. 1, 1957), pp. 22 (ill.), 24. Art Institute of Chicago, “Chronology,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51, 2 (Apr. 1, 1957), p. 28. Art Institute of Chicago, “Catalogue,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51, 2 (Apr. 1, 1957), p. 33 Art Institute of Chicago, “Exhibitions,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51, 2 (Apr. 1, 1957), p. 36. Claude Monet: A Loan Exhibition, exh. cat. (Minneapolis Society of the Fine Arts, 1957), p. 45, cat. 4 (ill.). William C. Seitz, “Claude Monet’s View of Nature,” in Claude Monet: A Loan Exhibition, exh. cat. (Minneapolis Society of the Fine Arts, 1957), pp. 16, 21, 24. Denis Rouart, Claude Monet, trans. James Emmons (Skira, 1958), p. 38 (ill.). William C. Seitz, Claude Monet (Abrams, 1960), pp. 74, 75 (ill.). Arthur Millier, “Summer Relief: ‘Painters by the Sea,’” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 27, 1961, p. N18 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), pp. 278 (ill.), 318. Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84, 55 (Sept. 1966), pp. 201, fig. 32; 202–03. Joel Isaacson, “The Early Paintings of Claude Monet” (Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1967), pp. xii, 183–84, 185. Edward Barry, “The Institute That Art Built,” Chicago Tribune, Mar. 2, 1969, p. 84. Charles C. Cunningham and Satoshi Takahashi, Shikago Bijutsukan [Art Institute of Chicago], Museums of the World 32 (Kodansha, 1970), p. 55, cat. 41 (ill.); 160–61. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (Abrams, 1970), pp. 80 (ill.), 81. Anthea Callen, “Jean-Baptiste Faure, 1830–1914: A Study of a Patron and Collector of the Impressionists and Their Contemporaries with a Catalogue of His Collection” (M.A. thesis, University of Leicester, 1971), pp. 28; 325–26, cat. 437. Gerald Needham, “The Paintings of Claude Monet, 1859–1878” (Ph.D. diss., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1971), pp. 88–89; 154–57; fig. 42. Denis Rouart, “Apparences et reflets,” in Denis Rouart and Jean-Dominique Rey, Monet, nymphéas, ou Les miroirs du temps, with a cat. rais. by Robert Maillard (Hazan, 1972), p. 40. Kermit Swiler Champa, Studies in Early Impressionism (Yale University Press, 1973), pp. 19; 20, fig. 26. Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. 1, Peintures, 1840–1881 (Bibliothèque des Arts, 1974), pp. 38; 162; 163, cat. 92 (ill.). M. Therese Southgate, “About the Cover,” JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 232, 4 (Apr. 28, 1975), cover (ill.); p. 340 (ill.). M. Therese Southgate, “About the Cover,” JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 233, 3 (July 21, 1975), p. 259. Horst Keller, Die Kunst der französischen Impressionisten (Herder, 1975), pp. 54; 128–29, pl. 80; 269. Mike Samuels and Nancy Samuels, Seeing with the Mind’s Eye: The History, Techniques, and Uses of Visualization (Random House, 1975), p. 70 (ill.). Grace Seiberling, “The Evolution of an Impressionist,” in Paintings by Monet, ed. Susan Wise, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p. 30. Susan Wise, ed., Paintings by Monet, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p. 64, cat. 10 (ill.). Charles C. Cunningham, Susan D. Peters, and Kathleen Zimmerer, Jongkind and the Pre-Impressionists: Painters of the Ecole Saint-Siméon, exh. cat. (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1977), pp. 23; 134, cat. 90 (ill.); 135. Art Institute of Chicago, 100 Masterpieces (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), pp. 22; 90–91, fig. 48. Luigina Rossi Bortolatto, L’opera completa di Claude Monet, 1870–1889, Classici dell’arte 63 (Rizzoli, 1972), pp. 89, cat. 19 (ill.); 90. Roger Terry Dunn, “The Monet-Rodin Exhibition at the Galerie Georges Petit in 1889” (Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University, 1978), pp. 78, 246. Gaëtan Picon, The Birth of Modern Painting (Skira, 1978), pp. 62–63 (ill.), 118. J. Patrice Marandel, The Art Institute of Chicago: Favorite Impressionist Paintings (Crown, 1979), pp. 52–53 (ill.). J. Patrice Marandel, “New Installation of Earlier Paintings,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 73, 1 (Jan.–Feb. 1979), p. 15 (ill.). Brian Petrie, Claude Monet: The First of the Impressionists (Phaidon, 1979), pp. 31–32, pl. 26; 33. Hélène Adhémar, Anne Distel, and Sylvie Gache, Hommage à Claude Monet (1840–1926), exh. cat. (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1980), pp. 80; 82, cat. 16 bis (ill.). Diane Kelder, The Great Book of French Impressionism (Abbeville, 1980), pp. 182 (ill.), 437. Musée Toulouse-Lautrec and Art Institute of Chicago, Trésors impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, exh. cat. (Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, 1980), pp. 31, no. 9 (ill.); 67. Andrea P. A. Belloli, ed., A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, exh. cat. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984), p. 364. Sylvie Gache-Patin, “Private and Public Gardens,” in A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, ed. Andrea P. A. Belloli, exh. cat. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984), p. 217. Sylvie Gache-Patin and Scott Schaefer, “Impressionism and the Sea,” in A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, ed. Andrea P. A. Belloli, exh. cat. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984), p. 276. Scott Schaefer, “The French Landscape Sensibility,” in A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, ed. Andrea P. A. Belloli, exh. cat. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984), pp. 58; 62; 66; 69, no. 6 (ill.). Scott Schaefer, “L’évasion loin de Paris,” in Réunion des Musées Nationaux, L’impressionnisme et le paysage français, exh. cat. (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1985), p. 342. Scott Schaefer, “The Retreat from Paris,” in A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, ed. Andrea P. A. Belloli, exh. cat. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984), p. 312. Sylvie Gache-Patin, “Jardins privés et jardins publics,” in Réunion des Musées Nationaux, L’impressionnisme et le paysage français, exh. cat. (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1985), p. 222. Sylvie Gache-Patin and Scott Schaefer, “La mer,” in Réunion des Musées Nationaux, L’impressionnisme et le paysage français, exh. cat. (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1985), p. 295. Scott Schaefer, “Le paysage dans la peinture française au cours des années 1860,” in Réunion des Musées Nationaux, L’impressionnisme et le paysage français, exh. cat. (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1985), pp. 46; 48; 54–55, no. 6 (ill.). Richard Shiff, Cézanne and the End of Impressionism: A Study of the Theory, Technique, and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art (University of Chicago Press, 1984), pp. 108; 110–11, fig. 21; 116. John House, “Monet and the Genesis of His Series,” in Auckland City Art Gallery, Claude Monet: Painter of Light, exh. cat. (Auckland City Art Gallery/NZI, 1985), pp. 12; 13, fig. 3. Hollis Clayson, “A Failed Attempt,” in The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874–1886, ed. Charles S. Moffett, exh. cat. (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1986), p. 147. Charles S. Moffett, ed., The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874–1886, exh. cat. (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1986), pp. 162; 163; 180, cat. 31 (ill.). Richard R. Brettell, French Impressionists (Art Institute of Chicago/Abrams, 1987), pp. 10 (detail), 11, 12 (ill.), 118. Douglas Skeggs, River of Light: Monet’s Impressions of the Seine (Victor Gollancz, 1987), pp. 37, 39 (ill.). Robert L. Herbert, Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society (Yale University Press, 1988), pp. 264–65, pl. 267 (detail); 265; 284; 289, pl. 295; 290; 292; 296. Ministry of Culture; State Hermitage Museum; Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Art Institute of Chicago, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: Shedevry frantsuzskoi zhivopisi XIX–nachala XX veka, iz Muzeia Metropoliten v N’iu-Iorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago [From Delacroix to Matisse: Masterpieces of French Painting of the Nineteenth to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago], trans. from English by Iu. A. Kleiner and A. A. Zhukov, exh. cat. (Avrora, 1988), pp. 76–77, cat. 27 (ill.). Francesco Arcangeli, Monet (Nuova Alfa, 1989), pp. 29–30; 82, fig. 8. Michael Howard, Monet (Brompton, 1989), p. 50 (ill.). Richard Kendall, ed., Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters, trans. Bridget Strevens Romer (Macdonald Orbis, 1989), pp. 43 (ill.), 317. Musée Rodin, Claude Monet; Auguste Rodin: Centenaire de l’exposition de 1889, exh. cat. (Musée Rodin, 1989), pp. 53, 74 (ill.). Jacques Vilain, “Les débuts (1840–1870),” in Musée Rodin, Claude Monet; Auguste Rodin: Centenaire de l’exposition de 1889, exh. cat. (Musée Rodin, 1989), p. 111. Alvin Martin and Judi Freeman, “The Distant Cousins in Normandy: Braque, Dufy, and Friesz,” in Judi Freeman, The Fauve Landscape, exh. cat. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Abbeville, 1990), p. 226, pl. 237. Denis Rouart, Monet (Nathan, 1990), p. 23 (ill.). Karin Sagner-Düchting, Claude Monet, 1840–1926: Ein Fest für die Augen (Benedikt Taschen, 1990), pp. 36–37 (ill.), 38. Translated by Karen Williams as Claude Monet, 1840–1926: A Feast for the Eyes (Taschen, 2004), pp. 36–37 (ill.), 38. John Russell Taylor, Impressionist Dreams: The Artists and the World They Painted (Barrie & Jenkins, 1990), p. 59 (ill.). 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    Artist
    Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
    Date
    1867
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    75.8 × 102.5 cm (29 13/16 × 40 5/16 in.); Framed: 104.1 × 130.2 × 11.4 cm (41 × 51 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    Impressionism
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1933.439

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