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lower right: Claude Monet

Provenance

Purchased from the artist December 1920 by (Durand-Ruel, Paris) and (Bernheim-Jeune, Paris); (Durand-Ruel, New York) by 1922 until at least 1926.[1] (Sam Salz, Inc., New York); sold 2 November 1960 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1983 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1926
Inaugural Exhibition, The Art Gallery of Toronto, 1926, no. 82
1966
French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 91, repro
1986
Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986, unnumbered checklist
1988
Monet in London, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1988-1989, no. 9, repro.
1996
Claude Monet, Österreichische Galerie, Vienna, 1996, no. 71, repro., as Waterloo Bridge, Daybreak.
1996
Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, unnumbered catalogue, 172-173, color repro.
1997
Loan for display with permanent collection, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, England, 1997.
1998
Monet in the 20th Century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1998-1999, no. 15, repro.
2001
Monets Vermächtnis Serie - Ordnung und Obsession [Monet's Legacy. Series - Order and Obsession], Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 2001-2002, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
2003
Aux origines de l'abstraction, 1800-1914, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2003-2004, no. 14, repro.
2004
Claude Monet, A Hymn to Light: Selected Works from the 1870s and 1890s, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum; Nara Prefectural Museum of Art, 2004, no cat.
2018
Monet's Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester; Worcester Art Museum; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2018-2019 (shown only in Rochester and Worcester).

Bibliography

1974
Wildenstein, Daniel. Claude Monet: biographie et catalogue raisonné. 5 vols. Lausanne Paris, 1974-1991: no. 1564.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 282, repro.
2000
Kirsh, Andrea, and Rustin S. Levenson. Seeing Through Paintings: Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies. Materials and Meaning in the Fine Arts 1. New Haven, 2000: 225-226, color fig. 244.

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