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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Étretat: The Beach and the Falaise d'Amont
    Claude Monet. Étretat: The Beach and the Falaise d'Amont, 1885. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000789

    Étretat: The Beach and the Falaise d'Amont

    by Claude Monet

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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.

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    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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