
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000789Étretat: The Beach and the Falaise d'Amont
by Claude Monet
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower right: Claude Monet
Provenance
Bongniat et Cie [per Wildenstein 1996]. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, by Aug. 1, 1912 [this and the three following per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1913 (no. 10089, as Falaises à Etretat, 1876), 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]; half-share to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Aug. 1, 1912, for 3,500 francs; remaining half-share sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Jan. 13, 1916; sent to Durand-Ruel, New York, Feb. 1916; sold to Chester Johnson, Chicago, June 29, 1929 [per Durand-Ruel, New York, stock book for 1929 (no. 3926, as Falaises à Etretat), 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]. Mrs. Anne R. Winterbotham, Chicago, by 1964; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1964 (died 1970), who retained a life interest in the painting. In 1973, it became a part of the Art Institute’s Joseph Winterbotham Collection; see Lyn DelliQuadri, “A Living Tradition: The Winterbothams and Their Legacy,” in “The Joseph Winterbotham Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago,” special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 20, 2 (1994), p. 109.
Exhibition history
Boston, Brooks Reed Gallery, Tableaux Durand-Ruel, Oct. 1916. Cincinnati Art Museum, French Painters of the So-Called Impressionist School, Nov. 1926. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Collectors: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Men’s Council of the Art Institute, Sept. 20–Oct. 27, 1963, no cat. no. Tulsa, Okla., Philbrook Art Center, French and American Impressionism, Oct. 2–Nov. 26, 1967, cat. 7. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15–May 11, 1975, cat. 58 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, July 22–Nov. 26, 1995, cat. 81 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021, cat. 33.
Publications
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Collectors: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Men’s Council of the Art Institute, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, [1963]), p. 5. Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report, 1963–64 (Art Institute of Chicago, [1964]), pp. 3, 19. Philbrook Art Center, French and American Impressionism, Sponsored by Tulsa Collectors Group, exh. cat. (Philbrook Art Center, 1967), p. 7, cat. 7. Art Institute of Chicago, “Exhibitions,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 69, 4 (July–Aug. 1975), p. 7. Grace Seiberling, “The Evolution of an Impressionist,” in Paintings by Monet, ed. Susan Wise, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p. 31. Susan Wise, ed., Paintings by Monet, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p. 112, cat. 58 (ill.). Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. 2, Peintures, 1882–1886 (Bibliothèque des Arts, 1979), pp. 168; 169, cat. 1012 (ill.). Charles F. Stuckey, ed., Monet: A Retrospective (Hugh Lauter Levin, 1985), p. 121 (ill.). Lyn DelliQuadri, “A Living Tradition: The Winterbothams and Their Legacy,” in Art Institute of Chicago, The Joseph Winterbotham Collection: A Living Tradition (Art Institute of Chicago, 1986), p. 13. Art Institute of Chicago, The Joseph Winterbotham Collection: A Living Tradition (Art Institute of Chicago, 1986), pp. 56 (ill.), 60. Art Institute of Chicago, “Selected References and Index,” in “The Joseph Winterbotham Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago,” special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 20, 2 (1994), p. 192. Lyn DelliQuadri, “A Living Tradition: The Winterbothams and Their Legacy,” in “The Joseph Winterbotham Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago,” special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 20, 2 (1994), p. 109. Margherita Andreotti, “The Joseph Winterbotham Collection,” in “The Joseph Winterbotham Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago,” special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 20, 2 (1994), pp. 118–19 (ill.). Robert L. Herbert, Monet on the Normandy Coast: Tourism and Painting, 1867–1886 (Yale University Press, 1994), pp. 101; 102–03, fig. 109; 104–05, fig. 114 (detail). Sophia Shaw Pettus, “Checklist of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, 1921–1994,” in “The Joseph Winterbotham Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago,” special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies20, 2 (1994), p. 188 (ill.). Charles F. Stuckey, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, with the assistance of Sophia Shaw, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Thames & Hudson, 1995), p. 102, cat. 81 (ill.). Peter Neill, On a Painted Ocean: Art of the Seven Seas, in collaboration with James A. Randall and Suzanne Demisch, ed. Gareth L. Steen (New York University Press, 1995), pp. 2, 3 (ill.). Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné/Werkverzeichnis, vol. 3, Nos. 969–1595 (Taschen/Wildenstein Institute, 1996), p. 381, cat. 1012 (ill.). “Cat. 21: Étretat: The Beach and the Falaise d’Amont, 1885” 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. Gloria Groom, et. al. Monet and Chicago, exh. Cat. (Chicago: Art Institute, 2020), 20, 32, 69 cat. 33, 133.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
- Date
- 1885
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 69.3 × 66.1 cm (27 1/4 × 26 in.); Framed: 90.8 × 88.3 × 10.8 cm (35 3/4 × 34 3/4 × 4 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. John H. (Anne R.) Winterbotham in memory of John H. Winterbotham; Joseph Winterbotham Collection
- Accession no.
- 1964.204
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