Artwork Details
26-1/8 x 36-7/8 in. (canvas) 34-3/16 x 44-7/8 x 4 in. (framed) - OPTIUM GLAZING
Accession NumberThe Lockton Collection
CopyrightEuropean Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color PaletteProvenance
Provenance
From the artist to (Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France) and (Durand-Ruel, Paris, France) in 1912;{1} sold by the latter to Mrs. Breckenridge Long (Christine Alexander Graham Long) [1888-1959], St. Louis, Missouri, in 1912.{2} Laurence Minot [1866-1921], Boston, Massachusetts;{3} by descent to his niece, Mrs. Henry M. Channing (Katharine M.) [b. 1883], Boston, by 1927;{4} estate of her husband, Henry M. Channing [1881- c. 1965], Sherborn, Massachusetts; Sale (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, New York) in 1965; {5} Mr. Richard C. Lockton, Indianapolis, Indiana; given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1970 (70.76). {1} This painting was included in the exhibition "Claude Monet 'Venise'" at Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, June 1912, catalogue no. 13. {2} The early provenance is given in Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné, volume 4, Paris, 1974-1991, no. 1749. The painting was included in the exhibition "A Collection of Works Owned in St. Louis and lent to the Museum, City Art Museum, St. Louis, July-November 1913, catalogue no. 62 (illustration) {3} As given in Wildenstein. {4} Mrs. Henry M. Channing lent the painting to the exhibition "Claude Monet: Memorial Exhibition," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in January 1927, catalogue no. 68; corroborated by a label on the back of the frame. {5} Parke-Bernet, New York, Highly Important Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Drawings from Various Owners, 14 October 1965, lot 84 (illustration), identifies the painting's consignor as "the estate of Henry M. Channing Late of Sherborn, Mass."
Gallery Labels
Gallery Labels
- In his series of paintings devoted to the church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Monet subordinated the architectural details in order to emphasize the light and color reflected on the surfaces of the building. The gondolas gliding across the Grand Canal are the only breaks in the dense web of pastel colors that defines the water.
- It is surprising that Monet, a painter devoted to the reflection of water and light, did not visit Venice until he was nearly 70 years old. He completed this canvas and his other Venetian scenes while working in his studio in France during the next few years.
Exhibition History
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Claude Monet: Monet: Places
Museum Barberini
February 29, 2020 - July 19, 2020
Monet and Architecture
The National Gallery of London
April 9, 2018 - July 29, 2018
Retrospective l'Hommage a Monet au Grand Palais
Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais Champs-Elysées
September 20, 2010 - January 24, 2011
Claude Monet
Réunion des Musées Nationaux Grand Palais
September 20, 2010 - January 24, 2011
Monet and Venice
Fondation Beyeler
September 28, 2008 - February 15, 2009
Monet and the Mediterranean
Brooklyn Museum
October 10, 1997 - January 18, 1998
Monet and the Mediterranean
Kimbell Art Museum
June 8, 1997 - September 7, 1997
Claude Monet
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
March 13, 1996 - June 16, 1996
Claude Monet
Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art
April 29, 1986 - June 30, 1986
Key Acquisitions Since 1970 Part II: Prints, Drawings, & Western Paintings
Indianapolis Museum of Art
October 21, 1980 - November 30, 1980
Monet
Art Institute of Chicago
1975 - 1975
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