
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002280Caricature of Jules Didier (“Butterfly Man”)
by Claude Monet
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: "O. Monet"
Provenance
Alfred Dussueil (1878–1927), Paris [Wildenstein 1991 and Durand-Ruel Archives]. Sold by Henri Cottereau, Paris, to Carter H. Harrison (1860–1953), Chicago, winter 1927–28 [Carter H. Harrison, “A brief statement of where and how I acquired the various items in the collection of drawings I have given to the Art Institute. . . . ,” Oct. 18, 1934]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.
Exhibition history
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet for the Benefit of the Children of Giverny," Apr. 11–May 12, 1945, p. 58, cat. 81. Art Institute of Chicago, "The Carter H. Harrison Memorial Exhibition," Nov. 19, 1954–Feb. 1, 1955, checklist no. 27. Art Institute of Chicago, "Claude Monet: 1840–1926," July 22–Nov. 26, 1995, p. 23, cat. 1c (ill.). Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, "The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings," June 24–Sept. 16, 2007, pp. 49–51, fig. 52; 53; 300; London, Royal Academy, Mar. 17–June 10, 2007. Art Institute of Chicago, "Monet and Chicago," Sept. 5, 2020-June 14, 2021.
Publications
Hugh Edwards, “The Caricatures of Claude Monet,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 37, 1 (Jan. 1943), pp. 71–72 (ill.). Charles Merrill Mount, Monet, a Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1966), pp. 33; following p. 190 (ill.); 396. Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet (Fratelli Fabbri, 1971), pp. 84, 93, no. 52 (ill.). Rodolphe Walter, “Claude Monet as a Caricaturist: A Clandestine Apprenticeship,” trans. Eric Young, Apollo 103 (June 1976), p. 489. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), p. 72, no. 4B8. Ralph E. Shikes and Steven Heller, The Art of Satire: Painters as Caricaturists and Cartoonists from Delacroix to Picasso (Pratt Graphics Center/Horizon, May 1, 1984), p. 30 (ill.). Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 5, Supplément aux peintures: Dessins; Pastels; Index (Wildenstein Institute, 1991), p. 151, cat. D515 (ill.). Andrew Forge, Monet, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago, 1995), pp. 8; 9, fig. 1. Margaret A. Sullivan, “Caricature/Cartoon,” in Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography, vol. 1, ed. Helene E. Roberts (Dearborn, 1998), p. 162. Alison Syme, A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-Siècle Art (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 4; 5, fig. 3. “Cat. 10: Caricature of Jules Didier (“Butterfly Man”),” 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.
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
- c. 1858
- Medium
- Black and white chalks on blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- 61.6 × 43.6 cm (24 5/16 × 17 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection
- Accession no.
- 1933.889
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