
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002281Caricature of a Man with a Big Cigar
by Claude Monet
Inscriptions
Not signed
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
Art Institute of Chicago, The Carter H. Harrison Memorial Exhibition, Nov. 19, 1954–Feb. 1, 1955, checklist no. 28. 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), p. 71. Raymond Cogniat, Monet and His World (Viking, 1966), pp. 10 (ill.), 131. Charles Merrill Mount, Monet, A Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1966), p. 396. Pierre Georgel, “Monet, Bruyas, Vacquerie et le Panthéon Nadar,” Gazette des beaux-arts 72 (Dec. 1968), p. 331. Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet (Fratelli Fabbri, 1971), p. 93 (ill.), no. 54. 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), pp. 71–72, no. 4B7. “Cat. 4: Caricature of a Man with a Big Cigar,” 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. Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 5, Supplément aux peintures: Dessins; Pastels; Index (Wildenstein Institute, 1991), p. 144, no. D490 (ill.). Ann Waldron, Claude Monet: First Impressions (Abrams, 1991), pp. 8 (ill.), 90.
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
- 1855/56
- Medium
- Black, white, and colored chalks on blue wove paper
- Dimensions
- Primary/secondary/tertiary supports: 59.8 × 38.5 cm (23 9/16 × 15 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection
- Accession no.
- 1933.890
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