House with Scaffolding, Giverny
Artist
Theodore Robinson
American, 1852–1896
Date1892
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions18 x 22 in. (45.7 x 55.9 cm)
Frame: 34 3/4 x 39 1/2 in. (88.3 x 100.3 cm)
Frame: 34 3/4 x 39 1/2 in. (88.3 x 100.3 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Jacques Busbee
Object numberG.52.7.1
On View
On view[1] “Paintings and Studies by the Late Theodore Robinson.”
Published ReferencesJohn I. H. Baur, Theodore Robinson, 1852-1896 (Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1946), no. 28 (as The Building of a House, Giverny).
American Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Raleigh:North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 48 (as Sketch at Bercy), illus. (b-w).
American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (brochure) (Charlotte: Mint Museum of Art, 1975), no. 31.
American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue) (Asheville: Asheville Art Museum, 1976), listed (with artist's bio.) 26, illus. (b-w) 27.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 250 (as Sketch at Bercy).
Sona Johnston, In Monet's Light: Theodore Robinson at Giverny (exhibition catalogue) (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2004), cat. no. 17, illus. (color) 109, also mentioned 107.
Dulce Maria Roman, Monet and American Impressionism (exhibition catalogue) (Gainesville: University Press of Florida for Harn Museum of Art, 2015), illus.Exhibition HistoryCharlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, "American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," September 7-October 19, 1975, no. 31.
Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, "American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," May 16-June 27, 1976, listed (with artist's bio.) 26, illus. (b-w) 27.
Wilmington, NC, St. John's Museum of Art, "Inventing the American Landscape: A Dialogue with the Visual World," April 25-June 28, 1998; Hickory, NC, The Hickory Museum of Art, September 12-November 8, 1998; Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art,November 22, 1998-January 17, 1999; Greenville, NC, Greenville Museum of Art, March 10-April 30, 1999, brochure (Outreach exhibition).
Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, "In Monet's Light: Theodore Robinson at Giverny," October 17, 2004-January 9, 2005; Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, February 4-May 8, 2005; Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, June 4-September 4, 2005, cat. no. 17, illus. (color) 109, also mentioned 107 (Note: catalogue entry mistakenly identifies the NCMA painting as a night scene and quotes the artist's detailed description. The description, however, refers to another painting that was unknown at the time of the exhibition but has since since come to light (Moonlit Farmhouse, ca. 1892, oil on panel, 10 ½ x 13 ¾ in., location unknown [Sale, New York, Christie's, May 24, 2007, lot. 51, illus., color]).
Gainesville, FL, Harn Museum of Art, “Monet and American Impressionism,” February 3–May 17, 2015; Chattanooga, TN, Hunter Museum of American Art, June–September 2015; Savannah, GA, Telfair Museums, October 16, 2015–January 24, 2016.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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H. Robinson
Theodore de Bry
circa 1587
