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Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare

Claude Monet · 1877

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist (d. 1926); sold to Ernest Hoschedé, Paris and Montgeron, Mar. 1877 [this and the following per Wildenstein 1996]. Georges de Bellio (d. 1894), Paris, 1878; by descent his daughter Victorine (de Bellio) Donop de Monchy and son-in-law Eugène Donop de Monchy, Paris, 1894 [per Niculescu, Paragone 249 (Nov. 1970)]. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, around 1899 [this and the following per Wildenstein 1996]. Paul Rosenberg, Paris, by Oct. 13, 1911; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Oct. 13, 1911, for 13,000 francs [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1901 (no. 9749, as La gare Saint-Lazare, le train de Normandie), 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]. Durand-Ruel, New York, by Dec. 16, 1911 [this and the following per Durand-Ruel, New York, stock book for 1904–24 (no. 3502, as Paris la gare Saint-Lazare), 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 Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, Dec. 16, 1911, for $7,000; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Paris, 6, rue Le Peletier, 3e exposition de peinture [third Impressionist exhibition], Apr. 1877, cat. 97, as Arrivée du train de Normandie, gare St-Lazare, appartient à M. H . . . .
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 6e exposition international e de peinture et de sculpture, May 8–June 8, 1887, no cat. no.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Claude Monet—A. Rodin, June 21–Sept. 21, 1889, cat. 33, as Gare Saint-Lazare. 1877. Appartient à M. de Bellio.
Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Exposition Universelle de 1900, L’exposition centennale de l’art français de 1800 a 1889, May 1–Nov. 12, 1900, cat. 484, as Le Train de Normandie (à M. Alexandre Bernheim jeune [sic]).
Brussels, Libre Esthétique, Exposition des peintres impressionnistes, Feb. 25–Mar. 29, 1904, cat. 98, as La Gare Saint-Lazare. Exposition centennale, 1900. Appartient à MM. J. et G. Bernheim jeune [sic].
New York, Durand-Ruel, Monet, Dec. 2–23, 1911, cat. 8.
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 299.
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934, cat. 219.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Independent Painters of Nineteenth Century Paris, Mar. 15–Apr. 28, 1935, cat. 32.
New York World’s Fair, European & American Paintings, 1500–1900: Masterpieces of Art, May–Oct. 1940, cat. 322.
Dayton (Ohio) Art Institute, The Railroad in Painting: An Exhibition of Paintings Shown at the Dayton Art Institute, Apr. 19–May 22, 1949, cat. 50 (ill.).
Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, The Painter and the City, May 8–June 15, 1950, no cat. no. (ill.).

Literature

Published references

Catalogue de la 3e exposition de peinture, exh. cat. (E. Capiomont et V. Renault, 1877), p. 9, cat. 97.
A. P[othey], “Beaux arts,” Le petit parisien, Apr. 7, 1877, p. 2.
“Exposition des impressionnistes: 6, rue Le Peletier; 6,” La petite république française Apr. 10, 1877, p. 2. Reprinted in Ruth Berson, ed., The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874–1886, Documentation, vol. 1, Reviews(Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/University of Washington Press, 1996), p. 176.
Ernest Fillonneau, “Les impessionnistes,” Moniteur des arts, Apr. 20, 1877, p. 1.
Charles Bigot, “Causerie artistique. L’exposition des ‘impressionnistes,’” La revue politique et littéraire, Apr. 28, 1877, p. 1047.
Gustave Geffroy, “Salon de 1887. Hors du Salon: Claude Monet,” La justice, pt. 2, June 2, 1887, p. 1.
Galerie Georges Petit, Claude Monet—A. Rodin, exh. cat. (Imp. de l’Art, 1889), p. 31, cat. 33.
J. A., “Beaux-Arts. Exposition de la galerie Georges Petit,” Art et critique 5 (June 29, 1889), p. 76.
Gustave Geffroy, “Histoire de l’impressionnisme,” La vie artistique 3, 2 (1894), p. 68.
André Mellerio, L’exposition de 1900 et l’impressionnisme (H. Floury, 1900), p. 20.
Ludovic Baschet, ed., Catalogue officiel illustré de l’Exposition centennale de l’art français de 1800 à 1889, exh. cat. (Lemercier, 1900), p. 211, cat. 484.
Octave Maus, Exposition des peintres impressionnistes, exh. cat. (Libre Esthétique, 1904), p. 39, cat. 98.

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