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Meadow with Haystacks near Giverny
1885
Claude Monet, French, 1840–1926
74.0 x 93.5 cm (29 1/8 x 36 13/16 in.)
Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Lower right: Claude Monet 85Classification: Paintings
Type, sub-type: Landscape - AgricultureObject is currently out on loanIn this painting of primarily blue, green, and violet hues, the eye is drawn to the lighter and brighter streaks of yellow. These represent sunlight that has broken through the trees on the right, trees that glow from within with captured light. Color and light had always been Monet's primary interests; at Giverny in the mid-1880s, he began to give himself up entirely to their exploration. Museum of Fine Arts, BostonBequest of Dr. Arthur Tracy Cabot, 1942
Accession number: 42.541Provenance/Ownership History: Please note: The history of ownership is not definitive or comprehensive, as it is under constant review and revision by MFA curators and researchers.
December 1885, sold by the artist to Durand-Ruel, Paris [see note 1]. 1886, with Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. 1886, with Durand-Ruel, New York. 1897, J. Eastman Chase Gallery, Boston. By 1899, acquired by Lilla Cabot Perry (b. 1848 - d. 1933) for her brother, Arthur Tracy Cabot (b. 1852 - d. 1912), Boston [see note 2]; by inheritance to his widow, Susan Shattuck Cabot; 1942, bequest of Arthur Tracy Cabot to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 12, 1942)
NOTES:
[1] The provenance given here (through 1897) is taken from Daniel Wildenstein, "Monet: catalogue raisonné" (1996), vol. 3, cat. no. 995. [2] According to a letter from Henry L. Shattuck to W. G. Constable of the MFA (November 23, 1942; in MFA curatorial file), Lilla Cabot Perry acquired this painting for her brother. He lent it to the exhibition "A Loan Exhibition of Pictures by Claude Monet," St. Botolph Club, Boston, February 6 - 23, 1899, cat. no. 2.This object is included in the following Selected Tour(s):
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