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The rounded, feathery canopies of trees are mirrored in the placid surface of a river in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted with visible dashes and strokes. The largest tree is to our right of center. Touches of cucumber and emerald green, eggplant purple, indigo blue, and smoke gray create the cloud-like canopy. More bushes and trees to either side are created with dashes of cool sky and lapis blue, mint and sage green, and muted rust red. The horizon runs across the middle of the canvas. The sky above and the reflection of it below are painted with longer, curving strokes of parchment white and pale shell pink. The artist signed the painting in the lower left corner, “Claude Monet.”

Claude Monet

The Seine at Giverny, 1897

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 80

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 81.5 x 100.5 cm (32 1/16 x 39 9/16 in.)

framed: 102.6 x 121.6 x 9.5 cm (40 3/8 x 47 7/8 x 3 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Chester Dale Collection

Accession Number

1963.10.180

Artists / Makers

Claude Monet (artist) French, 1840 - 1926

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left: Claude Monet

Provenance

Sold by the artist to James F. Sutton [d. 1915], New York; by inheritance to his wife; (Sutton sale, American Art Association, New York, 26 October 1933, no. 72); purchased by George Roberts for Chester Dale [1882-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.[1]

[1]Dale acquisition source according to copies of Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

American Art Association
Dale, Chester
Sutton, James Fountain

Exhibition History

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

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

Bibliography

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

1965: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 93, repro.

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

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

1974: Wildenstein, Daniel. Claude Monet: biographie et catalouge raisonné. 5 vols. Lausanne and Paris, 1974-1991: no. 1494.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 242, repro.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 491, no. 726, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 278, repro.