Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005925Boy in the Country
by Claude Monet
Provenance
Estate of the artist [estate stamp (Lugt 1819b), recto, lower right, in black]; by descent to his son, Michel Monet (1878–1966), Giverny [Wildenstein 1991]. Samuel (1891–1971) and Saidye Bronfman, Montreal, by 1959 [New York 1959]. Sold, Christie’s, London, Dec. 3, 1996, lot 105, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
New York, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, French Master Drawings: Renaissance to Modern, Feb. 10–Mar. 7, 1959, no. 130, as Peasant Boy. The Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 107, cat. 72 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection", March 15 - June 15, 2014. Art Institute of Chicago, "Monet and Chicago," Sept. 5, 2020-June 14, 2021.
Publications
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 5 (Lausanne: Bibliotheque des arts, 1991), p. 72, cat. D70. “Cat. 11: Boy in the Country,” 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.
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
- 1857
- Medium
- Graphite on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 30.7 × 23 cm (12 1/8 × 9 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.985
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