Claude Monet
The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest
186596.2 x 129.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Sam Salz and Bequest of Julia W. Emmons, by exchange, 1964
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
W 1974-1991 60
W 1996 60
Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, European paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by artists born before 1865, New York, 1995, pp. 471-472
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 123
Literature
Richard R. Brettell and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-century art in the Norton Simon Museum, New Haven, 2006, fig. 112a
Provenance
the artist, seized from his studio at Ville-d'Avray in 1866 or 1867
nephew of the dealer Martin
the artist, until 1873, sold to Durand-Ruel
with Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York, 1873–1900
Chauncey J. Blair, Chicago, 1900
with Durand-Ruel, New York, from 1900
with Sam Salz, New York, by 1962–64
Other works by Claude Monet
Houses of Parliament, London, sun breaking through the fog
1904
1904
Track signals outside Saint-Lazare Station
1877
1877
Branch of the Seine near Giverny
1897
1897
The artist's House at Argenteuil
1873
1873
Storm at Belle-He
1886
1886