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Caricature of a Man with a Large Nose
by 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. Charles Merrill Mount, Monet, a Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1966), p. 396. Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet (Fratelli Fabbri, 1971), p. 92 (ill.), no. 45. 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. 71, no. 4B5. Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 5, Supplément aux peintures; Dessins: Pastels; Index (Wildenstein Institute, 1991), p. 144, no. D492 (ill.). Ann Waldron, Claude Monet: First Impressions (Abrams, 1991), pp. 9 (ill.), 90. Marianne Alphant, Claude Monet: Une vie dans le paysage (Hazan, 1993), p. 62. Sandy Brooke, Hooked on Drawing (Prentice Hall, 1996), p. 266 (ill.). Ségolène Le Men, Monet (Citadelles et Mazenod, 2010), pp. 39, fig. 27; 40. “Cat. 8: Caricature of a Man with a Large Nose,” 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 tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- 24.8 × 15.2 cm (9 13/16 × 6 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection
- Accession no.
- 1933.895
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