Claude Monet
Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (Sunlight)
189499.7 x 65.7 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, lower left: Claude Monet 94
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
W 1974-1991 1325
W 1996 1325
Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, European paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by artists born before 1865, New York, 1995, p. 477
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 133
Provenance
with Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1895, bought from the artist, sold in May 1895 to Davis
Theodore M. Davis, Newport, R.I., 1895–died 1915
his estate, on loan to the MMA, 1915–30
Other works by Claude Monet
The Reader
1872
1872
Water lilies
c. 1915
c. 1915
Poplars along the River Epte, Autumn
1891
1891
Antibes seen from La Salis
1888
1888
Bazille and Camille (Study for 'Déjeuner sur l'Herbe')
c. 1865
c. 1865