Soleil sur la Petite Creuse, 1889

paintings

73 x 92.7 cm (28.75 x 36.5 in)

oil on canvas

signed Claude Monet (lower left)

Jean-Baptiste Faure, Paris (probably acquired directly from the artist) The American Art Association, New York, 26 April 1895, lot 127 Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale) Robert Treat Paine II, Boston (acquired from the above on 16 February 1916) Thence by descent to the present owner

(probably) Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Monet-Rodin , 1889 (probably) New York, Union League Club, Monet , 1891, no. 72 Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, First International Exhibition , 1896, no. 193 Boston, Copley Hall, Monet-Rodin , 1905, no. 23 New York, Durand-Ruel Gallery, Monet , 1907, no. 6 Pittsburgh, Eleventh Annual Exhibition , 1907, no. 332 Boston, Brooks Reed Gallery, Tableaux Durand-Ruel , 1914 Saint Louis, City Art Museum, 1914-15 Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (on extended loan in 1917) Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Impressionist and Barbizon Schools , 1919-20 Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Claude Monet Memorial Exhibition , 1927, no. 74 Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (on extended loan from 1984) Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago and London, Royal Academy of Art, Monet in the 90s. The Series Paintings , 1989, no. 9, pl. 12, illustrated in color (titled The Petite Creuse (Sunlight) ) Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Prized Possessions: European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , 1992, no. 96, p. 183; pl. 132, p. 97, illustrated in color (titled The Petite Creuse (Sunlight) ) Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Art Gallery of New South Wales and Te Papa Tongarewa, The Museum of New Zealand, The World of Claude Monet, 2008-09 Vienna, Albertina, Claude Monet: A Floating World, 2018-19 Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Monet and Boston: Lasting Impression, 2020-21 Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Monet and Boston: Legacy Illuminated, 2021

Marthe de Fels, La Vie de Claude Monet , Paris, 1929, p. 235 Otto Reuterswärd, Monet , Stockholm, 1948, p. 286 Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné , vol. III, Lausanne, 1979, no. 1232, pp. 124, 247-48; p. 125, illustrated; letter nos. 971, 975-76 Marianne Alphant, Claude Monet: une vie dans le paysage , Paris, 1993, p. 461 Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné , vol. III, Cologne, 1996, no. 1232, p. 470; p. 469, illustrated in color

Property from the Descendants of Robert Treat Paine II Claude Monet 1840 - 1926 Soleil sur la Petite Creuse signed Claude Monet (lower left) oil on canvas 28 ¾ by 36 ½ in. 73 by 92.6 cm. Executed in 1889.