LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

49 x 64.8 cm.

Description:

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Markings:

signed 'Claude Monet' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Paintings and Drawings by Representative Modern Artists, April-May 1920, p. 18, no. 173 (titled Boats: Holland).Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Impressionnisme: Les Origines, 1859-1869, April 1994-January 1995, pp. 66 and 423, no. 126 (illustrated, p. 423; illustrated again in color, p. 65, fig. 86; detail illustrated in color, p. 69; titled Le Port de Honfleur). The Art Institute of Chicago; Philadelphia Museum of Art and Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Manet and the Sea, October 2003-September 2004, p. 213 (illustrated in color, pl. 95; dated 1866-1867). Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum and Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Monet: The Early Years, October 2016-May 2017, pp. 108-109 and 202, no. 13 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonn, Lausanne, 1991, vol. V, p. 18, no. 2044-77bis (illustrated, p. 19).D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonn, Cologne, 1996, vol. II, pp. 42-43, no. 77a (illustrated in color, p. 43; illustrated in color again, vol. I, p. 37).

Provenance:

(possibly) Arsne Portier, Paris. Alexander Johnston Cassatt, Philadelphia (circa 1881). Mr. and Mrs. William Plunkett Stewart, Unionville, Pennsylvania (by descent from the above, by 1920).Mr. and Mrs. William Potter Wear, Penllyn, Pennsylvania (by descent from the above). Elsie Cassatt Stewart Simmons, Philadelphia (by descent from the above); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 5 November 1991, lot 26. Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty at the above sale.