Morning Haze

1888

Claude Monet

Artist, French, 1840 - 1926

Tall, oval forms slowly emerge against a field of softly painted white, pale sky blue, shell pink, light lilac purple, and faint yellow to become trees in a hazy, foggy field in this nearly square landscape painting. The paint is swept on in short, visible strokes. The tallest tree, reaching almost to the top of the canvas, stands to our left of center. Three shorter, bushier trees, about a quarter the height, flank the tall tree with one to our left and two closer to the right edge. Two narrow trees stand between the tallest one and the bushier pair to our right. The artist signed the work in orange paint in the lower left corner: “Claude Monet.”

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Chester Dale Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 74 x 92.5 cm (29 1/8 x 36 7/16 in.)
    framed: 89.7 x 107 x 5.4 cm (35 5/16 x 42 1/8 x 2 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1958.12.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Acquired from the artist by James F. Sutton [d. 1915], New York; (Sutton sale, American Art Association, New York, 16 January 1917, no. 151 [sale given as collection of Mrs. Florence Macy Sutton]); purchased by (Durand-Ruel)[1] for Mrs. Henry Osborne Havemeyer, née Louisine Waldron Elder [1855-1929], New York; (Havemeyer sale, American Art Association, New York, 10 April 1930, no. 71); purchased by Chester Dale [1882-1962], New York; gift to NGA 1958.
[1]Annotated copy of sales catalogue in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1891

  • Exhibition of Paintings by Old Masters, and Modern Foreign and American Artists, together with an Exhibit of the work of Monet the Impressionist, Union League Club, 1891, no. 77, as Foggy Morning.

1933

  • Literature and Poetry in Paintings Since 1850, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 1933, no. 45.

1943

  • Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1943-1951, unnumbered cat., repro.

1965

  • The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1931

  • H.O. Havemeyer Collection: Catalogue of Paintings, Prints, Sculpture and Objects of Art. Privately printed, 1931: 504

1943

  • Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Philadelphia, 1943: unpaginated, repro.

1953

  • French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 60, repro.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 92.

  • Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 94, repro.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 81, repro.

1974

  • Huyghe, René. La Relève du Réel: impressionnisme, symbolisme. Paris, 1974: 121, repro.

  • Wildenstein, Daniel. Claude Monet: biographie et catalogue raisonné. 5 vols. Paris, 1974: 3:no. 1196.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 240, repro.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 277, repro.

1993

  • Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney et. al. Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,1993: 364, no. 403.

2013

  • Harris, Neil. Capital Culture: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience. Chicago and London, 2013: 246, 248, 249, 250.

Inscriptions

lower left: Claude Monet

Wikidata ID

Q20189944

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