Art Institute of Chicago
Boy in the Country
Claude MonetLinkedCulture matchlcp-8e614afd9c71
- Date
- 1857
- Medium
- Graphite on ivory wove paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 186315
This energetic study comes from a sketchbook that Monet kept when he was no more than 17 years old. Since none of his paintings from this period survive, the work offers a rare glimpse of his early talent. His chosen subject—perhaps a native of his coastal hometown, Le Havre—could well have been captured spontaneously. The boy’s clothing obscures his anatomy, but the outlines of his smock are crisp and decisive. It seems as if the artist applied considerable pressure to the pencil. In describing the tufts of grass, he appears to have indented the page.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- 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.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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