Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed (lower left): Claude Monet
Gallery Label This view of Suzanne Hoschedé in the meadows just south of Le Pressoir, Monet's home at Giverny, was probably painted in the summer of 1887. She became Monet's preferred model in the period after the death of his first wife, Camille, in 1879, and before 1890, when he gave up plein-air figure painting. The model was the daughter of Alice Hoschedé, whom Monet married in 1892.
Provenance the sitter, Giverny (1887–d. 1899; returned by her widower, Theodore Earl Butler, to the artist); Claude Monet, Giverny (1899–d. 1926); his step-daughter, also the late sitter's sister, Blanche Hoschedé-Monet, Giverny (1926–d. 1947); her nephew, Jean-Marie Toulgouat (1947–54; sold on May 7, 1954, through Sam Salz, New York, to Annenberg); Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, Rancho Mirage, Calif. (1954–until his d. 2002; his bequest to MMA)
Exhibition History Paris. Galerie Georges Petit. "Claude Monet - A. Rodin," June 21–August ?, 1889, no. 145 (as "La Promeneuse").
Paris. André Weil. "Centenaire de Cl. Monet," January 30–February 21, 1940, no. 19 [see Ref. Wildenstein 1996].
Paris. Bernheim-Jeune. "Exposition de la femme, 1800–1930," April–June 1948, no. 63 (as "Portrait de Mme Butler, belle-fille de l'artiste").
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Exhibition of Philadelphia Private Collectors," June 19–September 15, 1963, no catalogue [loans from Annenberg Collection on view July 4–September 2].
London. Tate Gallery. "The Annenberg Collection," September 2–October 8, 1969, no. 22 (as "Suzanne Hoschedé à Giverny").
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection," May 21–September 17, 1989, unnumbered cat. (as "Suzanne Hoschede à Giverny").
Washington. National Gallery of Art. "Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection," May 6–August 5, 1990, unnumbered cat.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection," August 16–November 11, 1990, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection," June 4–October 13, 1991, unnumbered cat.
References M. Roy Fisher. The Annenberg Collection . Exh. cat., Tate Gallery. London, 1969, unpaginated, no. 22, ill. (color).Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné . 3, Paris, 1979, pp. 90–91, no. 1133, ill.Monet: Nature into Art . New Haven, 1986, pp. 36, 236 n. 93.Claude Monet - Auguste Rodin: Centenaire de l'exposition de 1889 . Exh. cat., Musée Rodin. Paris, 1989, pp. 57, 99, ill.in Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection . Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 1991, pp. 56–57, 166, ill. (color and b&w) [1st edition, pp. 54–55, 160, ill.].Claude Monet: Life and Work . New York, 1992, pp. 191, 199.Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self . Chicago, 1994, pp. 124, 130.Monet . 3, 2nd ed. Cologne, 1996, pp. 429–30, no. 1133, ill. (color).in Claude Monet (1840–1926): A Tribute to Daniel Wildenstein and Katia Granoff . Exh. cat., Wildenstein & Co., Inc. New York, 2007, p. 130.
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