National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: The Artist's Garden in Argenteuil (A Corner of the Garden with Dahlias)
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lower left: Claude Monet.73.

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Provenance

Purchased December 1873 from the artist by (Durand-Ruel, Paris). Baroux Collection. (Durand-Ruel, Paris), in 1896. (Galerie Thannhauser, Berlin), c. 1928. (Sam Salz, New York). Mr. and Mrs. David O. Selznick, New York.[1] private collection, Paris, in 1949. Probably (Durand-Ruel, Paris), in 1959.[2] (Sam Salz, New York), in 1965. Mr. and Mrs. Konrad H. Matthaei, c. 1966. (Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York); sold 1970 to Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. Levin, New York;[3] gift 1991 to NGA.

[1] Provenance according to Wildenstein 1974 catalogue raisonné, volume 1, no. 286.

[2] The painting was lent to a 1949 exhibition in Basel from a private collection in Paris, which may have been Durand-Ruel; it was exhibited at Durand-Ruel in 1959.

[3] According to Janice Levin, quoted in The Washington Post, 21 March 1991 (copy in NGA curatorial files).

Exhibition History

1899
Exposition de Tableaux de Monet, Pissarro, Renoir & Sisley, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1899, no. 2
1905
Pictures by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, Grafton Galleries, London, 1905, no. 149
1910
Manet-Monet, Galerie Miethke, Vienna, 1910, no. 29, as Monet's Garden in Argenteuil.
1928
Claude Monet 1840-1926, Galerien Thannhauser, Berlin, 1928, no. 19, repro.
1949
Impressionisten, Kunsthalle Basel, 1949, no. 79.
1959
Exposition Claude Monet 1840-1926, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1959, no. 9
1975
Paintings by Monet, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1975, no. 35, repro.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 166-167, color repro.
1995
Claude Monet: 1840-1926, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1995, no. 32, repro., as Monet's Garden at Argenteuil (The Dahlias).
2000
The Impressionists at Argenteuil, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 2000, no. 20, repro., as A Corner of the Garden with Dahlias.
2002
A Very Private Collection: Janice H. Levin's Impressionist Pictures, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2002-2003, no. 4, repro.
2004
Monet's Garden, Kunsthaus Zürich, 2004-2005, no. 11, repro.
2004
The Impressionist Eye, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 2004, no cat.
2005
An Impressionist Eye: Painting and Sculpture from the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, 2005, no cat.
2007
Monet: L'art de Monet et sa postérité, The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2007, no. 23, repro.
2010
Impressionist Gardens, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 2010-2011, no. 19, repro.

Bibliography

1973
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. Rev. ed. New York, 1973: 284, repro.
1974
Wildenstein, Daniel. Claude Monet. Biographie et catalogue raisonné 5 vols. Paris, 1974: I:no. 286.
1982
Tucker, Paul Hayes. Monet at Argenteuil. New Haven, 1982: 143, repro.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: 166-167, color repro.
1997
Bailey, Colin B. Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an age. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Art Institute of Chicago; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. New Haven and London, 1997: fig. 133.
2007
Renoir Landscapes 1865-1883. Exh. cat. The National Gallery, London; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Philadelphia Museum of Art. London, 2007: 135-136, fig. 78.

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