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Caricature of Henri Cassinelli (“Rufus Croutinelli”)
by Claude Monet
Inscriptions
Signed: "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
City Art Museum of St. Louis, "Claude Monet: A Loan Exhibition," Sept. 25–Oct. 22, 1957, p. 17, cat. 97 (ill.); Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Nov. 1– Dec. 1, 1957. Art Institute of Chicago, "Claude Monet: 1840–1926," July 22–Nov. 26, 1995, p. 23, cat. 1b (color ill.). Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, "The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings," June 24–Sept. 16, 2007, pp. 44–45, fig. 36; 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), p. 71 (ill.). John Rewald, The History of Impressionism (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1946), p. 34 (ill.). Charles Merrill Mount, Monet, a Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1966), p. 396. Maria and Godfrey Blunden, Impressionists and Impressionism, trans. James Emmons (Skira, 1970), p. 38 (ill.). Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet (Fratelli Fabbri, 1971), p. 92, no. 50 (ill.). Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. 1 (Bibliothèque des Arts, 1974), pp. 6, 40. Rodolphe Walter, “Claude Monet as a Caricaturist: A Clandestine Apprenticeship,” trans. Eric Young, Apollo 103 (June 1976), pp. 489 and 492. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), p. 71, no. 4B4. Diane M. Kelder, The Great Book of French Impressionism (Abbeville, 1980), p. 174 (ill.). Ralph E. Shikes and Steven Heller, The Art of Satire: Painters as Caricaturists and Cartoonists from Delacroix to Picasso (Pratt Graphics Center/Horizon, 1984), p. 30 (ill.). Denis Rouart, Monet (Nathan, 1990), p. 16 (ill.). Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 5, Supplément aux peintures: Dessins; Pastels; Index (Wildenstein Institute, 1991), p. 145, cat. D495 (ill.). Andrew Forge, Monet, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago, 1995), pp. 8; 9, fig. 2. Birgit Zeidler, Claude Monet: Life and Work (Könemann, 2000), pp. 4 (ill.), 6 (ill.), 7. Norio Shimada, Inshoha bijutsukan [History of impressionism] (Shogakukan, 2004), p. 54 (ill.). Anne-Marie Bergeret-Gourbin, Honfleur et les peintres: 1820–1920 (Falaises, 2007), p. 104. Ségolène Le Men, Monet (Citadelles et Mazenod, 2010), pp. 34; 36, fig. 23; 38; 42. “Cat. 9: Caricature of Henri Cassinelli (“Rufus Croutinelli”),” 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
- c. 1858
- Medium
- Graphite on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- 13 × 8.5 cm (5 1/8 × 3 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection
- Accession no.
- 1933.893
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