The Petite Creuse River by Claude Monet
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The Petite Creuse River

Claude Monet · 1889

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Potter Palmer, (d. 1902) Chicago [per Wildenstein 1996; Tucker 1989, p. 55 suggests that the painting was purchased by Berthe Palmer, not Potter Palmer]; by descent to the Potter Family, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934, cat. 220.
  • University of Chicago, Lexington Hall, Nov. 17–Dec. 17, 1952, no cat.
  • Park Forest (Ill.) Art Center, Mar. 25–Apr. 22, 1956, no cat.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1–June 15, 1957, no cat.no.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15–May 11, 1975, cat. 83.
  • Milwaukee Art Museum, 1888: Frederick Layton and His World, April 8–August 28, 1988, cat. 45 (ill.).
  • Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Monet in the ’90s: The Series Paintings, February 7–April 29, 1990, cat. 8 (ill.); Art Institute of Chicago, May 19–August 12, 1990; London, Royal Academy of Arts, September 7–December 9, 1990.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, July 22–Nov. 26, 1995, cat. 92 (ill.).
  • Florence, Sala Bianca di Palazzo Pitti, Claude Monet: La poesia della luce; Sette capolavori dell’Art Institue di Chicago a Palazzo Pitti, June 2–Aug. 29, 1999, no cat. no. (ill.).
  • Paris, Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, Sept. 22, 2010–Jan. 24, 2011, cat. 83 (ill.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021, cat. 49.

Literature

Published references

  • Art Institute of Chicago, “Accessions and Loans,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 16, 3 (May, 1922), p. 47.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings, pt. 2, Paintings (Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), p. 68, cat. 836.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 147, cat. 836.
  • M. C., “Monets in the Art Institute,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 19, 2 (Feb. 1925), p. 19.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of “A Century of Progress”: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1934, ed. Daniel Catton Rich, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1934), p. 38, cat. 220.
  • Oscar Reuterswärd, Monet: En konstnärshistorik (Bonniers, 1948), p. 289.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, “Catalogue,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51, 2 (Apr. 1, 1957), p. 33.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 320.
  • Grace Seiberling, “The Evolution of an Impressionist,” in Paintings by Monet, ed. Susan Wise, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p. 32.
  • Susan Wise, ed., Paintings by Monet, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p. 140, cat. 83 (ill.).
  • Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. 3, Peintures, 1887–1898 (Bibliothèque des Arts, 1979), pp. 124; 125, cat. 1231 (ill.); 248, letters 975 and 976.
  • Robert Gordon and Andrew Forge, Monet (Abrams, 1983), pp. 126–27 (ill.), 291.

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