Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed and dated (lower right): Claude Monet 78·
Gallery Label Monet painted five views of the Parc Monceau: three in 1876 and two in 1878. In this canvas, the disposition of light and shade in the foreground, the patterns of the leaves, and the broad contours beginning to develop in areas of strong contrast suggest that Monet had already begun to experiment with the boldly two-dimensional motifs that would characterize his work of the 1880s and 1890s.
Provenance ?Collot, Paris (from 1878, bought from the artist June 2, as "Une allée au parc Monçeau"); ?Georges de Bellio, Paris (1879–after 1889); [Durand-Ruel, Paris]; [Georges Bernheim, until about 1930]; Alfred Lindenbaum, later Lindon, Paris (by 1931-d. about 1948; deposited with Durand-Ruel 1935; held in Paris for Lindenbaum/Lindon, no. LI 45, at Chase Bank, Paris, from which seized by the Nazis in 1940, no. 30; taken from the Jeu de Paume, no. 66, November 25, 1942 by Hermann Goering, no. RM1278, who exchanged it with art dealer Commandatore Eugenio Ventura of Florence on December 6, 1942, or February 18 or March 8, 1943, no. 6, through intermediaries, with Hofer acting for Goering and Morandotti for Ventura; NARA claim, February 20, 1945, lists picture; seized by the Commission de Récupération Artistique on November 28, 1946, no. 30, in Rome and returned to France, according to docket no. 457-08-36 of the Ministry of Education, Paris, December 4, 1946, when it was restituted to the Lindon family); his wife, Mme Lindon, Paris (1948–59); her son, Jacques Lindon, New York (1959; sold to MMA)
Exhibition History Paris. 28, avenue de l'Opéra. "4me exposition de peinture [4th Impressionist exhibition]," April 10–May 11, 1879, no. 152 (as "Parc Monceaux [sic]," lent by M. de Bellio, possibly this picture).
Paris. Galerie Georges Petit. "Claude Monet - A. Rodin," June 21–August ?, 1889, no. 36 (as "Parc Monceau," lent by M. de Bellio, possibly this picture).
Paris. Musée de l'Orangerie. "Claude Monet: Exposition rétrospective," 1931, no. 47 (as "Le Parc Monceau," lent by M. Lindon).
Paris. Durand-Ruel. "Claude Monet de 1865 à 1888," 1935, no. 26 (as "Le Parc Monceau," lent by M. Alfred Lindon).
Paris. Galerie Charpentier. "Plaisir de France," 1951, no. 134 (as "Le parc Monceau").
Paris. Durand-Ruel. "Exposition Claude Monet: 1840-1926," May 22–September 30, 1959, no. 21 (as "Une allée au Parc Monceau").
Paris. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais. "Centenaire de l'impressionnisme," September 21–November 24, 1974, no. 31 (as "Parisiens au Parc Monceau").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Impressionism: A Centenary Exhibition," December 12, 1974–February 10, 1975, no. 31.
Bordeaux. Galerie des Beaux-Arts. "Profil du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York: de Ramsès à Picasso," May 15–September 1, 1981, no. 120 (as "Parisiens au Parc Monceau").
Fort Lauderdale. Museum of Art. "Corot to Cézanne: 19th Century French Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," December 22, 1992–April 11, 1993, no catalogue.
Copenhagen. Ordrupgaard. "Impressionists in Town," September 6–December 1, 1996, no. 45 (as "Parisians Enjoying the Parc Monceau").
Kunsthaus Zürich. "Monet's Garden," October 29, 2004–March 13, 2005, no. 15.
References Georges de Bellio. Letter to Claude Monet . [about 1884] [published in Ref. Niculuscu, 1964, pp. 257–58].Claude Monet: Sa vie, son temps, son œuvre . Paris, 1922, p. 98.Claude Monet . Monaco, 1943, pl. 89.Monet . Stockholm, 1948, pp. 115, 281, pl. 53.Revue Roumaine d'Histoire de l'Art 1, no. 2 (1964), pp. 217, 220, 241, 258 [see also Ref. Niculescu 1970, an expanded version of this reference].L'opera completa di Claude Monet, 1870–1889 . Milan, 1966, p. 99, no. 157, ill.French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art . 3, New York, 1967, p. 129, ill.Metropolitan Museum Journal 3 (1970), pp. 288–90, 305, fig. 9.Paragone 21 (September 1970), pp. 37, 53, pl. 33.Paragone 21 (November 1970), pp. 53, 64–65, 84, no. II75c.in Impressionism: A Centenary Exhibition . Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1974, pp. 164–66, no. 31, ill. (color) [French ed., "Centenaire de l'impressionnisme," Éditions des musées nationaux, Paris, 1974].Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné . 1, Lausanne, 1974, pp. 90, 316–17, no. 466, ill.The Lost World of the Impressionists . London, 1976, p. 186.Mone [Monet] . Tokyo, 1977, unpaginated, fig. 1 (color).L'Oeil no. 272 (March 1978), pp. 18–19, fig. 2 (color).Claude Monet: Life at Giverny . New York, 1985, ill. opp. p. 5 (color).Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York, 1985, pp. 120–21, 252, ill. (color).The Metropolitan Museum of Art . 8, New York, 1987, p. 32, colorpl. 16.Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society . New Haven, 1988, p. 142, colorpl. 141.Claude Monet, 1840–1926: Ein Fest für die Augen . Cologne, 1990, p. 98, ill. p. 99 (color).Georges Seurat, 1859–1891 . Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1991, p. 179 n. 24 [French ed., "Seurat," Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1991, p. 217 n. 24].Seurat and the Art Theory of His Time . Antwerp, 1991, p. 145, colorpl. 278.Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale) (December 20, 1992), p. 4D, ill. p. 1D.Miami Herald (December 20, 1992), p. 6I.Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris after War and Revolution . Princeton, 1995, p. 96, fig. 66.Monet . 2, 2nd ed. Cologne, 1996, p. 187, no. 466, ill. (color).Monet or the Triumph of Impressionism . 1, 2nd ed. Cologne, 1996, p. 135.Monet . London, 1997, p. 117, fig. 81 (color).in Pointillismus: Auf den Spuren von Georges Seurat . Exh. cat., Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne. Munich, 1997, ill. p. 21 (color) [French ed., "Pointillisme sur les traces de Seurat," Lausanne, 1998].Impressionist & Modern Art: Part One . Sotheby's, London. June 26, 2001, p. 26, fig. 2 (color).Monet's Garden . Exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany, 2004, pp. 31–32, 196, no. 15, ill. (color).in Monet's Garden . Exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany, 2004, p. 120.In the Gardens of Impressionism . New York, 2004, p. 118, colorpl. 120.Impressionist and Modern Art: Evening Sale . Christie's, New York. May 9, 2007, p. 67, under no. 18, fig. 1 (color).in Claude Monet (1840–1926): A Tribute to Daniel Wildenstein and Katia Granoff . Exh. cat., Wildenstein & Co., Inc. New York, 2007, p. 133.
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