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On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)LinkedCulture matchlcp-8e614afd9c71
- Date
- 1868
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 81539
Here Claude Monet’s future wife, Camille Doncieux, sits on an island in the Seine River, looking toward the hamlet of Gloton, next to the town of Bennecourt, from which she and Monet have presumably rowed. This is the only painting to survive from the brief period that the couple spent in Gloton, which the novelist Émile Zola recommended to Monet as a cheap rural retreat that was easily accessible from Paris. Pentimenti (visible traces of earlier painting beneath a layer or layers of paint) suggest that in an early stage of the painting, Camille held a bonneted child, presumably the couple’s baby, Jean.
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- Credit line
- Potter Palmer Collection
- Provenance
- Louis Aimé Léon Clapisson, Neuilly-sur-Seine, by June 21, 1889, for 500 francs [per Galerie Georges Petit exhibition catalogue and Distel, Appendix II in Bailey, 1997]; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, April 21, 1892, for 1,500 francs [this and the following per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1891 (no. 2127, as Argenteuil), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]; sold to Potter Palmer (d. 1902), Chicago, May 18, 1892, for 7,500 francs; by descent to the Potter Family, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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