Waves at the Manneporte
Artist
Claude Monet
French, b. Paris, 1840; d. Giverny, France, 1926
Datecirca 1885
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensionsheight and width: 29 x 36 1/2 in. (73.7 x 92.7 cm)
frame: 36 1/2 x 44 1/16 x 3 1/4 in. (92.7 x 111.9 x 8.3 cm)
frame: 36 1/2 x 44 1/16 x 3 1/4 in. (92.7 x 111.9 x 8.3 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Ann and Jim Goodnight
Object number2016.8.5
On View
On viewPublished ReferencesEvan Charteris, John Sargent (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927), 96–97, 100.
Charles Merrill Mount, Monet: A Biography (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966), 336.
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et Catalogue raisonné (Lausanne: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1979), vol. 2, 178, no. 1036, illus. (b-w), 179, as Vagues à la Manneporte.
Frances Weitzenhoffer, “The Earliest American Collectors of Monet,” in Aspects of Monet: A Symposium of the Artist’s Life and Times (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1984), 86.
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et Catalogue raisonné (Lausanne: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1991), vol. 5, 44, no. 1036.
Marianne Alphant, Claude Monet, une vie dans le paysage (Paris: Hazan, 1993), 344.
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catlogue Raisonné (Köln: Taschen, 1996), vol. 3, 392, no. 1036, illus. (color) 390, as Vagues à la Manneporte.
Sargent and Impressionism (New York: Adelson Galleries, 2010), discussed and illus.
Karen C. Kelly, "On View in West Building: Works by Monet," in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Spring 2012), discussed 18, illus. (color) 19.
Perry Hurt, "Color App," in Smithsonian 44, no. 2 (May 2013), briefly discussed and illus. (color) 20.
Monet: Light, Shadow, and Reflection (exh. cat.), Ulf Küster, ed. (Basel: Beyeler Museum, 2017), illus. (color) 105.
Judith Benhamou-Huet, “Claude Monet and modern art at the Beyeler Foundation: supreme beauty,” Judith Benhamou-Huet Reports, February 2, 2017: http://judithbenhamouhuet.com/report/claude-monet-and-modern-art-at-the-beyeler-foundation-supreme-beauty/
Exhibition HistoryLondon, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., “Nineteenth and Twentieth Century French Paintings from English Private Collections,” June–July 1965, no. 24, illus. (b-w), p. 32, as Le rocher à Tréport.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., “A Tribute to Paul Maze: The Painter and His Time,” May 1967, no. 94, illus. (b-w), p. 43, as Le rocher à Etretat, La Manneporte.
San Diego, CA, San Diego Museum of Art, “Monet: The Late Paintings in Context,” June 27–August 30, 1998, as Vagues à la Manneporte.
San Francisco, CA, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, "Monet in Normandy," June 17–September 17, 2006; Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, October 15, 2006–January 14, 2007; Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, February 18, 2007–May 28, 2007, cat. no. 40, illus. (color).
Basel, Fondation Beyeler, “Monet,” January 22–May 28, 2017, cat. illus. (color) 105.
Seattle, WA, Seattle Art Museum, "Monet at Étretat," July 1–October 17, 2021.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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