
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009214About the Artwork
In 1888, Claude Monet spent four months in Antibes, a city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean coast, to derive inspiration for painting. Although his visit was occasionally challenged by strong winds that threatened to knock over his easel, the artist was able to complete nearly 40 works. This especially vibrant canvas is a depiction of a gardener’s house set against the sea and the distant Alps. Monet portrays intense midday light through thickly applied paint in bright colors that evoke the region’s sun-drenched climate. Small daubs of green on the slender trees framing the house suggest the onset of spring.
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: Claude Monet
Provenance
July 20, 1891: (Durand-Ruel, Paris, France, 1891, purchased from the artist). 1891: (Durand-Ruel, Paris, France, sold to Duran-Ruel, New York, NY) 1892: (Duran-Ruel, New York, NY, April 19, 1892 sold to W. C. van Horne, Montreal, Canada) 1892: W. C. van Horne [1843-1915], Montreal, Canada, sold back to Durand-Ruel, New York, NY August 24,1892. 1892-1893: (Durand-Ruel, New York, NY, September 7, 1892, sold to J. Cook, St. Louis, MO) 1893: Bought back by Durand-Ruel, New York, together with Boussod et Valadon at the W. H. Johnson-J. Cook sale, 11 March 1893. 1893: Sold by Durand-Ruel, New York, to Jeptha H. Wade on 11 March 1893. 1893-1916: Jeptha H.Wade, given to the CMA in 1916. 1916-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Fifty Years of French Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29-November 29, 1926). French Art Since Eighteen Hundred. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 8-December 8, 1929). The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942). 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943). Exhibition of French Painting. Parkersburg Art Center (organizer) (October 1-30, 1946). Exhibition of the Month: The Rise of the Landscape in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9-September 26, 1948). 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). Claude Monet: a loan exhibition. Saint Louis Art Museum (organizer) (September 25-October 22, 1957); Minneapolis Institute of Art (November 1-December 1, 1957). Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). The Monet Triptych: Water Lilies. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 18, 1979-February 17, 1980). Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987). Discerning Tastes: Montreal Collectors, 1880-1920. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (December 15, 1989-February 25, 1990). Monet and the Mediterranean. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (organizer); The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (October 10, 1997-January 4, 1998). Monet, Retrospective. The Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan (organizer) (July 5-September 30, 2001). L'oro e l'azzurro, I colori del Sud da Cézanne a Bonnard. Casa dei Carraresi, 31100 Treviso, Italy (October 10, 2003-March 7, 2004). Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014). Monet and Architecture. National Gallery, London, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (April 9-July 29, 2018). Claude Monet. Albertina, Wien, Austria (organizer) (September 21, 2018-January 6, 2019) https://www.albertina.at/en/exhibitions/monet/. Monet in Full Light. Grimaldi Forum - Monaco, MC 98001 Monaco cedex (organizer) (July 8-September 3, 2023) https://www.grimaldiforum.com/en/events-schedule-monaco/exhibition-monet-full-light-grimaldi-forum-monaco. Monet in Focus. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 31-August 11, 2024). Monet's Ecology. Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP, Sao Paolo, Brazil (organizer) (May 16-September 7, 2025). Painting the French Riviera. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (October 2, 2026-January 31, 2027); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 14-July 11, 2027).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 91.1 x 118.4 x 13.7 cm (35 7/8 x 46 5/8 x 5 3/8 in.); Unframed: 66.3 x 93 cm (26 1/8 x 36 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
- Accession no.
- 1916.1044
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