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Camille Monet and a Child in the Artist's Garden in Argenteuil
1875
Claude Monet, French, 1840–1926
55.3 x 64.7 cm (21 3/4 x 25 1/2 in.)
Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Lower left: Claude Monet 75Classification: Paintings
Type, sub-type: Portrait - Double - Child; LandscapeObject is currently out on loanCamille, Monet's first wife, is shown with a child in the garden of their house in Argenteuil, near Paris, where they lived between 1872 and 1877. The shimmering reds, blues, greens, and white that capture the brilliance of a sun-drenched day are applied with many small brushstrokes, whose varied shapes create the different textures of flowers, grass, and clothing. Museum of Fine Arts, BostonAnonymous gift in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Webster, 1976
Accession number: 1976.833Provenance/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.
October 1875, possibly sold by the artist to Clément Courtois, Mulhouse [see note 1]. Julius Oehme, Paris. 1900, with Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York. By 1905, Desmond FitzGerald (b. 1846 - d. 1926), Brookline, MA [see note 2]; April 21, 1927, FitzGerald sale, American Art Association, New York, lot 187, to Edwin Sibley Webster (b. 1867 - d. 1950), Boston; 1972, by descent to an anonymous donor, New York; 1976, anonymous gift in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Webster. (Accession Date: January 12, 1977)
NOTES:
[1] The provenance given here (through 1927) is taken from Daniel Wildenstein, "Monet: Catalogue Raisonné" (1996), vol. 2, p. 157, cat. no. 382. [2] He lent the painting to the exhibition "Loan Collection of Paintings by Claude Monet and Eleven Sculptures by Auguste Rodin," Copley Society, Boston, March 1905, cat. no. 29.This object is included in the following Selected Tour(s):
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