P?ches
signed 'Cl. Monet' (lower left)
oil on canvas
201Ü4 x 143Ü4 in. (51.3 x 37.4 cm.)
Painted in 1883
Special Notice

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTOR
Provenance

Paul Durand-Ruel, Paris, by whom acquired from the artist in 1883.
Jean d'Alayer, France, by circa 1952.
Georges Durand-Ruel, Paris and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby's, London, 2 December 1986, lot 5.
Acquired at the above sale by the father of the present owner.
Literature

G. Lecomte, L'art impressionniste, Paris, 1892, p. 198.
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet, biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Lausanne, 1979, p. 142, no. 935 (illustrated pp. 142-143).
R. Gordon & A. Forge, Monet, New York, 1983, p. 219 (illustrated p. 218).
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Cologne, 1996, p. 349, no. 935 (illustrated p. 348).
Exhibited

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Monet, 1952, no. 59; this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, and The Hague, Gemeentemuseum.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet: 1840-1926, July - November 1995, no. 74.