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
Arrival of the Normandy Train, Saint-Lazare Station
1877
1877
Water Lilies
1919
1919
Branch of the Seine near Giverny
1897
1897
The Houses of Parliament, sunset
1903
1903
Pyramids of Port-Coton, Belle-He
1886
1886