The Seine at Giverny, Morning Mists

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

Date1897

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions35 x 36 in. (88.9 x 91.4 cm)
Frame: 44 3/8 x 45 1/2 in. (112.7 x 115.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Sarah Graham Kenan Foundation and the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object numberG.75.24.1

On View

On view

ProvenanceClaude Monet; sold April 1900 to Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York; sold 1902 to Bertha Honoré Palmer (Mrs. Potter Palmer) [1], Chicago; through inheritance to her son, Potter Palmer Jr. (d. 1943), 1918; through inheritance to his son, Potter Palmer III, (1909–1946), Chicago; through divorce to his former wife, Rose Movius Palmer, Chicago; sold to/through Peter H. Davidson and Co., New York, to NCMA, 1975.

[1] Potter Palmer (1826–1902) operated an extremely successful dry-goods store in partnership with Marshall Field and Levi Leiter. In the 1850s he withdrew from this business. He was responsible for much of the development of State Street and Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. In 1871 he married the young and beautiful Bertha Honoré, daughter of Henry Hamilton Honoré. Bertha, who was considered the queen of Chicago high society, patronized the impressionist artists. Potter Palmer bought a number of paintings by Monet directly from Durand-Ruel, ca. 1901. He also sold paintings back to Durand-Ruel as he upgraded his collection.

Published ReferencesFrance Daguet, "Monet et les USA," Connaissance Des Artes, 41, illus. (color) no. 34. Susan Wise, ed., Paintings by Monet (exhibition catalogue) (London: published by Balding & Mansell, Ltd, for the Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), cat. no. 100, illus. Joel Issacson, Observation and Reflection: Claude Monet (Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1978), 224, illus. 157. Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978), illus. pl. 26. D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet (Paris: La Bibliotheque des Arts Lausanne, 1979), no. 1474. 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) 162. Thomas S. Kenan, III, Sarah Graham Kenan Foundation: A History (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1984), 22, illus. (color). John House, Claude Monet: Painter of Light (exhibition catalogue) (Auckland, NZ: Auckland City Gallery, 1985), cat. no. 25, illus. (color). John House, Monet: Nature into Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986), 102, illus. (color) 105, fig. 139. Douglas Skeggs, River of Light, Monet's Impressions of the Seine (London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1987), 142-144, 152, illus. Richard Kendall, ed., Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters (London: Macdonald and Co. Ltd., 1989), 320, illus. (color) fig. 220. Paul Hayes Tucker, Monet in the 90s: The Series Paintings (exhibition catalogue) (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989), cat. no. 77, illus. (color). Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 144. John House, "Time's Cycles." Art in America no. 10 (October 1992), 132, illus. (color) 126. John Willats, Art and Representation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), 231-233, illus. 233. Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. III (Cologne: Taschen,1996). 612-14, illus. (color) 612. The Atmosphere, Earth Science Series - Volume 3 (CD-ROM) (Seattle: Videodiscovery, Inc., 1997). Tim McLaurin, "Bridges of Water," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 78-81, illus. (color) 78. Paul Hayes Tucker, et al, Monet in the 20th Century (exhibition catalogue) (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998) 8, illus. (color) (in catalogue only, not in exhibition). Also, Monet in the 20th Century: An Introduction, (catalogue supplement), 8, illus. (color) 10. Joseph P. Covington, entry for The Seine at Giverny, Morning Mists, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 187, illus. (color). Robert Kirschten, "Claude Monet's 'Morning on the Seine near Giverny,' 1897," in Nighthawks and Irises: Poems about Paintings (Lewiston: Mellen Poetry Press, 2000), 20-21. David A. Brenneman, Monet: A View from the River (exhibition catalogue) (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2001), briefly discussed 42, 44, illus. (color) 45. Valerie Ann Leeds, Ray Ellis in Retrospect: A Painter's Journey (exhibition catalogue) (New York and London: Abbeville Press in association with the Telfair Museum of Art, 2004), mentioned 32, illus. (color) 31, fig. 17. Katharine Lochnan, Turner Whistler Monet (exhibition catalogue) (London: Tate Publishing in association with the Art Gallery of Toronto, 2004), cat. no. 60 (as Arm of the Seine near Giverny in the Fog) illus. (color), detail (color) facing 163. Dominique Lobstein, "Monet. Leçons anglaises," in Turner Whistler Monet, a special issue of Connaissance des Arts, H.S. no. 232 (2004), illus. (color) 41. "Turner Whistler Monet," Beaux Arts Collection, a special edition of Beaux Arts magazine (September 2004), illus. (color detail) 53. Heather Lemonedes, Lynn Federle Orr, and David Steel, Monet in Normandy (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Rizzoli, 2006), cat. no. 54, illus. and detail (color). David Steel, "Monet Seeing -Seeing Monet: Beyond the First Impression," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (November/December 2006), illus. (color) 7. Joe Houston, et al, In Monet's Garden: The Lure of Giverny (exhibition catalogue) (Columbus, OH: Columbus Museum of Art, 2007), listed 158, illus. (color) 23, pl. 2. Joseph P. Covington, entry for The Seine at Giverny, Morning Mists, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 378, illus. (color) 379. Karen C. Kelly, "On View in West Building: Works by Monet," in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Spring 2012), briefly discussed and illus. (color) 20. Christoph Heinrich, Nature as Muse: Inventing Impressionist Landscape (exhibition catalogue) (Denver: Denver Art Museum, 2013), illus. (color) 90, listed 167 (catalogue only, not in show). Richard M. Berrong, Putting Monet & Rembrandt into Words (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013), illus. (color detail) front cover. Tanya Paul, “A Marvel of Intense Poetry,” in Monet and the Seine: Impressions of a River, Helga Kessler Aurisch and Tanya Paul (exhibition catalogue) (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2014), noted 42 and illus. (color) 43, fig. 2 (catalogue only, not in exhibition). 75 in 25: Important Acquisitions at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1990–2015 (Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2016), illus. (color) 176. Michael White, "The Seine at Giverny" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 122. André Dombrowski, Monet's Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time (New Haven and London, CT: Yale University Press, 2024), 181, illus. (color) 148 (detail), 182, fig. 108.

Exhibition HistoryParis, Georges Petit, "Monet," 1898. Paris, Durand-Ruel, "Monet," 1900, cat. no. 15. Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, "Treasures," 1961. Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, "Private Collections in Chicago," July 12-August 31, 1969. Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, "Paintings by Monet," March 15-May 11, 1975, cat. no. 100. Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Recent Acquisitions," August 25-September 23, 1977. New York, NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism," April 19-July 9, 1978; St. Louis, MO, St. Louis Art Museum, July-September 15, 1978, illus. pl. 26. New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, "Claude Monet - Painter of Light," April 29-June 9, 1985; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, June 18-July 28, 1985; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, August 6-September 22, 1985, cat. no. 25 (as Morning Mists), illus. (color). Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, "Monet in the 90s: The Series Paintings," February 7-April 29, 1990; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, May 19-August 12, 1990, cat. no. 77, illus. (color). Atlanta, GA, High Museum of Art, "Monet: A View from the River," October 6, 2001 - January 6, 2002, cat. 42, 44, illus. (color) 45. Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, "Turner Whistler Monet," June 12-September 12, 2004; Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, October 12, 2004-January 17, 2005; London, Tate Britain, February 10-May 15, 2005, cat. no. 60 (as Arm of the Seine near Giverny in the Fog), 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. 54, illus. and detail (color). Columbus, OH, Columbus Museum of Art, "In Monet's Garden: The Lure of Giverny," October 12, 2007-January 20, 2008, listed 158, illus. (color) 23, pl. 2. Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.

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