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Claude Monet

The Luncheon on the Grass, c. 1865

Not on View

Medium

black chalk on blue laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 30.5 x 46.8 cm (12 x 18 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Wildenstein 1974, undescribed

Accession Number

1995.47.60

Artists / Makers

Claude Monet (artist) French, 1840 - 1926

Image Use

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Provenance

Jean-Frederic Bazille; by inheritance to his nephew, Frederic Bazille; Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Davis, Minneapolis, MN; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Bazille, Frédéric
Davis, Richard S.
Mellon, Paul

Exhibition History

1957: Claude Monet. A Loan Exhibition. City Art Museum of St. Louis, and Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1957, no. 98.

1958: French Drawings from American Collections. Clouet to Matisse. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (previously presented in Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, and Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, 1958-1959, no. 173.

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 40.

1999: An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999-200 (no catalogue).

2005: Monet und Camille: Frauenportraits im Impressionismus, Kunsthalle Bremen, 2005-2006, no. 7.

2005: "Monet und Camille: Frauenportraits im Impressionismus" ("Monet and Camille: Portraits of Women in Impressionism"), Kunsthalle Bremen, 2005-2006, no. 7.

2007: The Unknown Monet, Pastels and Drawings, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., 99, 302, fig. 88.

2007: "The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings", Royal Academy of Arts, London; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 2007, no. 88.

2012: Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings. Albertina, Vienna, 2012 (not in catalogue).

2016: In Celebration of Paul Mellon, NGA, 2016.

Bibliography

1948: Sarraute, Gabriel. "Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Frédéric Bazille. Thèse soutenue par M. Arraute. M. Cassou, professeur." Musées de France (October 1948): 236.

1958: Sarraute, Gabriel. "Contribution à l'étude du Déjeuner sur l'herbe de Monet," Bulletin du Laboratoire du Musée du Louvre (June 1958): 46, 48, fig. 11 (as location unknown).

1972: Isaacson, Joel. "Monet: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe." Art in Context (1972): 59-62, note 83, fig. 32.

1980: Hommage a Claude Monet (1840-1926). Grand Palais, 1980, 59, under nos. 5-7.

1996: Conisbee, Philip, and Margaret Morgan Grasselli. "Recent Additions to the Collections: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, and Sculptures from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon," Circle Bulletin, no. 15, Spring, 1996, n.p. (reprod.).

2012: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan, and Andrew Robison. Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac. Exh. cat. Musée des impressionnismes Giverny and National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 79, fig. 6 (color)