The Artist's Garden in Giverny

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

1900

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

unframed: 35 1/4 × 36 1/4 in. (89.5 × 92.1 cm)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, B.A. 1929, L.H.D.H. 1967

Accession Number

1983.7.12

Culture

French

Period

19th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
The artist; possibly sold to Georges Bernheim, Paris, 1918; Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875–1968), Dublin; Mrs. A.E. Pleydell-Bouverie, 1960; with Wildenstein and Company; Paul Mellon (1907-1999) and Rachel Lambert ‘Bunny’ Mellon (1910-2014), Upperville, Virginia, by 1966; gift to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1983
Bibliography
  • Ann Dumas, Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, exh. cat. (London: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015), 212, 221, no. 95
  • Lisa R. Brody et al., "To Varnish or Not to Varnish?," in "Time Will Tell: Ethics and Choices in Conservation," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2010), 122–23, 125, fig. 1
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

botanical

Subject

flowers (plants) gardens

Signed

Signed lower left: "Claude Monet"

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