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The Cliff, Étretat, Sunset

Artist Claude Monet French, b. Paris, 1840; d. Giverny, France, 1926

Date1882–1883

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions23 13/16 x 32 3/16 in. (60.5 x 81.8 cm)
Frame: 33 3/4 x 41 1/2 in. (85.7 x 105.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number67.24.1

On View

On view

ProvenancePurchased from Monet by Durand-Ruel, Paris, November, 1883; Sold by Durand-Ruel to William H. Fuller, by 1899; Fuller Sale, American Art Association, New York, March 12-13, 1903, lot 148 (bought by Hugo Reisenger); Reisinger sale, Plaza Hotel, New York, January 18-20, 1916, lot 73; Mrs. Charles H. Senff, New York, ca. 1917; Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, New York, ca. 1928; (C. Mauclair, 1924 pl.11; Ch. Léger, 1930, pl. 22; H. Huth, GBA, 4/1936, p. 246) sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, December 11, 1963, lot 69; with Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York, sold to NCMA, 1967.
Published ReferencesWilliam H. Fuller, Claude Monet and His Paintings (New York: Press of J. J. Little and Co., 1899), no. 16, statement of ownership.

Carl N. Barefoot, Jr., ed., Museum News (January 1968), 3, illus., statement of accession.

"Major Painting Bought by Museum," North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar of Art Events (October 1967), discussed and illus. (b-w, installation view) unnumbered page.

Raleigh: News and Observer, (August 31, 1967), 8, illus.

Gazette des Beaux-Arts 70 (Supplement, November 1967), 5, illus.

Museum News (January 1968), 3, illus.

Gazette des Beaux-Arts (La Chronique des Arts), no. 1189 (February 1968), 83, illus.

Art Quarterly 31, no. 1 (Spring 1968), 94, illus. 107.

Nina Kasanof, "Monet and Étretat," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 7, no. 4 (May 1968), 3-11, illus. (b-w) fig. 1 and (color) front cover.

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 108, illus. (color) 109.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted or What's in a Dream (New York: Rand McNally and Co., 1979), illus. 99.

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné (Lausanne, Paris: La Bibliotheque des Arts, 1979), 100, illus. 101, no. 817.

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) 160.

Charles F. Stuckey, ed., Monet: A Retrospective (New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1985), illus. 120, pl. 56.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 141.

Robert L. Herbert, Monet on the Normandy Coast: Tourism and Painting, 1867-1886 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), 76, illus. (color) 79, fig. 86, detail (color) 61, fig. 66.

Steven Z. Levine, Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994), 47, illus. fig. 42.

Paul Smith, Impressionism Beneath the Surface (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995), 99-100, illus. (color) 98, fig. 60.

Charles F. Stuckey, Claude Monet: 1840-1926 (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Thames and Hudson; Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1995), cat. no. 70, illus. (color) 92.

Peintres en Normandie, Hors Série Normandie Magazine (1995), illus. (color) frontispiece, details (color) 6, 29, cover.

Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. II (Cologne: Taschen, 1996), 303-304, illus. (color) 303.

[author?] The Impressionists (Tokyo: Kodansha, Ltd., 1998), illus. (color) unnumbered page.

Joseph P. Covington, entry for The Cliff, Etretat, Sunset, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 6, 185, illus. (color) 185, detail (color) 178.

Rebecca A. Rabinow, "Modern art comes to the Metropolitan: The 1921 exhibition of 'Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings'," Apollo 152, no. 464 (October 2000), 11.

Sugimoto Portraits (exhibition catalogue) (New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2000), illus. (b-w) 34, caption 168.

Norio Shimada, Claude Monet, Vol. 2: 1881-1926 (Tokyo: Art Mall, Inc., 2001), mentioned 188, illus. (color) 2.

M. Therese Southgate, M.D., "The Cover," JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 288, no. 19 (November 20, 2002), discussed 2370, illus. (color) 2363, 2370, and cover.

Michael Clarke and Richard Thomson, Monet: The Seine and the Sea (exhibition catalogue) (Edinburgh: Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland, 2003), cat. no. 71, discussed 144, illus. (color) 145.

"School of Paris Reflected in NCMA's Collection," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (November/December 2004), mentioned and illus. (color) 6.

Claude Monet, Great Masters of Western Art Series no. 1 (Japan: Norio Shimada, 2006), illus. (color) 76.

Heather Lemonedes, Lynn Federle Orr, and David Steel, Monet in Normandy (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Rizzoli, 2006), cat. no. 39, illus. and detail (color).

John House, Impressionists by the Sea (exhibition catalogue) (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2007), cat. no. 61, illus. (color) 111, discussed 139-140.

Michael Charlesworth, Landscape and Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France (Hampshire, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008), discussed 78-79, illus. (color) pl. 7.

David Steel, entry for The Cliff, Étretat, Sunset, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 376, illus. (color) 377.

Karen C. Kelly, "On View in West Building: Works by Monet," in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Spring 2012), briefly discussed 18, illus. (color) 19.

Donald W. Olson, et al, “Dating an Impressionist’s Sunset” in Sky and Telescope (February 2014), 35–41, illus. (color).

Donald W. Olson, Celestial Sleuth: Using Astronomy to Solve Mysteries in Art, History, and Literature (New York: Springer, 2014), 4–25, illus. (color) 4, fig. 1.1.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Lotos Club, "Monet," 1899, no. 16.

New York, NY, Metropolitan Museum, "Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings," 1921, no. 74.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 108, illus. (color) 109.

Lumberton, NC, Pinecrest Country Club, "NCMA Capital Campaign," April 11, 1978 (one day).

Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo Madrid, "Claude Monet," April 29-June 30, 1986, 282-283.

Chicago, IL, The Art Institute of Chicago, "Claude Monet: 1840-1926," July 22, 1995-November 26, 1995, cat. no. 70, illus. (color) 92.

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, "Monet: The Seine and the Sea," August 6-October 26, 2003, cat. no. 71, illus. (color).

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. 39, illus. and detail (color).

Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, "Impressionists by the Sea," February 9-May 11, 2008.

Rouen, France, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, “La couleur réfléchie. L’impressionnisme à la surface l’eau,” April 27–September 29, 2013, cat. no. 158, illus. (color) 287.

Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, “Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester and the Power of Observation,” January 24–April 12, 2015.

Denver, CO, Denver Art Museum, "Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature," October 21, 2019–February, 2020; Potsdam, Germany, Museum Barberini, February 29–June 1, 2020.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Reflections on Light: Works from the NCMA Collection,” September 9, 2020–August 15, 2021.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Becoming the NCMA: 10 Decades of Collecting, 1924-2022," June 11-August 21, 2022.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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