Shown is the terrace of Claude Monet's aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre with members of his family. His father is sitting in the foreground.
Claude Monet
Garden at Sainte-Adresse
186798.1 x 129.9 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, special contributions and funds given or bequeathed by friends of the Museum, 1967
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
W 1974-1991 95
W 1996 95
Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, European paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by artists born before 1865, New York, 1995, p. 473
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 124
Literature
Pierre Rosenberg, Only in America, Milano, 2006, pp. 178-179
Laurent Salomé (ed.), A City for Impressionism, Milan; Paris, 2010, p. 102, fig. 3
Géraldine Lefebvre (ed.), Monet au Havre, Vanves, 2016, figs. 35, 111 (detail), 144 (detail)
Provenance
Victor Frat, Montpellier, probably before 1870–at least 1879, bought from the artist
his widow, Mme Frat, Montpellier, until 1913, sold on 16 April to Durand-Ruel, Paris
with Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1913, transferred on 12 May to Durand-Ruel, New York
with Durand-Ruel, New York, 1913–26, sold on 4 June, 1926 to Pitcairn
Reverend Theodore Pitcairn and the Beneficia Foundation, Bryn Athyn, Pa., 1926–67
sale, Christie's, London, 1 December 1967, nr. 26 to Thomas Agnew & Son for MMA
Other works by Claude Monet
Camille Monet and a Child in the Artist's Garden in Argenteuil
1875
1875
Towing a Boat, Honfleur
1864
1864
Wheatstacks
1891
1891
Taking a Walk near Argenteuil
The Stroll at Giverny
1888
1888