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Caricature of a Man in the Small Hat
by Claude Monet
Inscriptions
Signed on top: "Claude 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
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. John Rewald, The History of Impressionism (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1946), p. 34 (ill.). Raymond Cogniat, Monet and His World (Viking, 1966), pp. 9 (ill.), 131. Charles Merrill Mount, Monet, a Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1966), p. 396. Mitsuhiko Kuroe, Monet (Shueisha, 1970), p. 86 (ill.). Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet (Fratelli Fabbri, 1971), p. 92 (ill.), no. 48. John Rewald, History of Impressionism (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1973), p. 39 (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. 70, no. 4B2. Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 5, Supplément aux peintures: Dessins; Pastels; Index (Wildenstein Institute, 1991), p. 145, cat. D496 (ill.). “Cat. 3: Caricature of a Man in a Small Hat,” 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.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Claude Monet / French, 1840-1926
- Date
- 1855/56
- Medium
- Graphite on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 19.8 × 14.9 cm (7 13/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection
- Accession no.
- 1933.892
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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