Claude Monet
Jean Monet in His Cradle
1867116.2 x 88.8 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
W 1974-1991 101
W 1996 101
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 713
Literature
Sidsel Maria Søndergaard (ed.), Women in Impressionism, Milano, 2006, fig. 239
Provenance
Dr. Georges de Bellio (1828-1894), Paris
probably by inheritance to M and Mme (she née Victorine de Bellio,1863-1958) Ernest Donop de Monchy, Paris
sold 1907 for or by von Tschudi through Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris
with Galerie Caspari, Munich in 1916
Mrs. Meta Schütte, Bremen, by c. 1919 and probably in Schütte family collection until c. 1948
by inheritance to her granddaughter and her husband, Dr. and Mrs. F.M. Oelze, Bremen
with E.J. van Wisselingh and Co., Amsterdam, sold February 1951 to Wildenstein
with Wildenstein and Co., London, New York, and Paris, sold December 1956 to Kirkeby
Arnold Kirkeby, New York
his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 19 November 1958, nr. 12
Mr. and Mrs. George Friedland, Merion, Pennsylvania
their sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 13 December 1961, nr. 80
with M. Knoedler & Co., London, New York and Paris, sold January 1965 to Mellon
Mr. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia
gift 1983 to NGA
Other works by Claude Monet
Water lily garden with weeping willow
1916-19
1916-19
Breakwater at Trouville, low tide
1870
1870
Peaches
1883
1883
Poppy Field (Giverny)
1890-91
1890-91
The coast, looking east from Frécamp
1881
1881