Claude Monet
The Stroller (Suzanne Hoschedé, later Mrs. Theodore Earl Butler, 1868-1899)
1887100.6 x 70.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left: Claude Monet
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
W 1974-1991 1133
W 1996 1133
Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, European paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by artists born before 1865, New York, 1995, p. 476
Provenance
the sitter, Giverny, 1887-d. 1899, returned by her widower, Theodore Earl Butler, to the artist
Claude Monet, Giverny, 1899-d. 1926
his step-daughter, also the late sitter's sister, Blanche Hoschedé-Monet, Giverny, 1926-d. 1947
her nephew, Jean-Marie Toulgouat, 1947-54, sold on May 7, 1954, through Sam Salz, New York, to Annenberg
Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, Rancho Mirage, Calif., 1954-his d. 2002
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
Other works by Claude Monet
The River Epte
Water-Lily Pond, Symphony in Green
The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil
Near Monte Carlo
Landscape with Factories