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    Cliffs and Sea, Sainte-Adresse
    Claude Monet. Cliffs and Sea, Sainte-Adresse, c. 1864. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004479

    Cliffs and Sea, Sainte-Adresse

    by Claude Monet

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    By descent from the artist to his son, Michel Monet (1878–1966), Giverny, from 1926 [Wildenstein 1991]. Wildenstein and Company, New York, by Feb. 1951 [Ay-Whang Hsia to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 14, 2006]; sold to Richard S. Davis, New York, May 1951 [Ay-Whang Hsia to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 14, 2006]; sold to the Art Institute, Jan. 1988.

    Exhibition history

    City Art Museum of St. Louis, "Claude Monet: A Loan Exhibition," Sept. 25–Oct. 22, 1957, cat. 100; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Nov. 1–Dec. 1, 1957. Art Institute of Chicago, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago," Sept. 10, 1991–Jan. 5, 1992, n.pag., cat. 46; New York, Frick Collection, Apr. 23–July 7, 1991. Art Institute of Chicago, "Claude Monet: 1840–1926," July 22–Nov. 26, 1995, p. 28, cat. 6 (ill.). Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, "The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings," June 24–Sept. 16, 2007, pp. 88–89, fig. 78; 301; London, Royal Academy, Mar. 17–June 10, 2007. Vienna, Albertina, "Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings," Feb. 10–May 13, 2012, pp. 182; 184, cat. 94 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "Monet and Chicago," Sept. 5, 2020-June 14, 2021.

    Publications

    Richard Kendall, ed., Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters, trans. Bridget Strevens Romer (Macdonald Orbis, 1989), pp. 38 (ill.), 317. Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 5, Supplément aux peintures: Dessins; Pastels; Index (Wildenstein Institute, 1991), p. 124, cat. D421 (ill.). Sylvie Patin, Monet: “un oeil . . . mais, bon Dieu, quel oeil!” (Gallimard/Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1991), p. 25 (ill.). Andrew Forge, Monet, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago, 1995), pp. 10; 106, pl. 1. “Cat. 12: Cliffs and Sea, Sainte-Adresse,” 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.

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Claude Monet / French, 1840-1926
    Date
    c. 1864
    Medium
    Black chalk on ivory laid paper
    Dimensions
    20.6 × 31.4 cm (8 1/8 × 12 3/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Clarence Buckingham Collection
    Accession no.
    1987.56

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