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- Titles Le Matin, temps brumeux, Pourville (Misty Morning at Pourville) (Proper)
- Artist Claude Monet, French, 1840 - 1926
- Medium oil on canvas
- Dimensions 24 x 29 1/8 in. (61 x 74 cm) frame: 31 3/4 × 37 1/8 × 2 1/2 in. (80.6 × 94.3 × 6.4 cm)
- Credit Line Museum purchase with funds provided by 1977 and 1980-1983 Museum Dinner and Balls, 1981.40
- Work Type painting
- Classification Paintings
- On View
- Signature Recto, lower left, paint: Claude Monet 82
- Inscription Verso, upper stretcher, right, printed label: No. 25213 / Picture / [straight black line] / [Straight black line] Verso, upper stretcher, right, label: [faded, indecipherable] Verso, upper stretcher, right, black marker on label: Monet No. [illegible] / Le matin, temps / brumeux Pourville / [ripped] 882 [illegible, possibly ibbb] Verso, upper stretcher, left, circular label under tape: [indecipherable]. Verso, left stretcher, lower left, blue circular label: [no text] Verso, left stretcher, bottom, circular label under black tape: [indecipherable] Verso, left stretcher, bottom, black marker: BMA 81.40 Verso, bottom stretcher, right, black marker: B.M.A. 81.40 Verso, stretcher bar, upper center, marker: 14967 / CA/333 / [straight line drawn]. Verso, stretcher bar, upper center, printed label: 14967 Verso, stretcher bar, upper center, crayon: [drawn circle with numbers inside] 80 [illegible] Verso, stretcher bar, center, marker: [illegible, possibly 0] 9 / [illegible] / `11 Frame, verso, lower left, label: [faded, illegible] Frame, verso, lower right, printed label: Property of: / Diana Taylor Walker Frame, verso, lower left, label: [faded, illegible] Frame, verso, upper left, label: [faded, illegible] Frame, verso, upper left, chalk: [illegible] Frame, verso, upper right, marker: 6 [upside down]
- Provenance Claude Monet (1840-1926), 1882; purchased by dealer Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922), Paris, April 22 or April 25, 1882 [see note 1]; purchased in New York by Albert Spencer, New York, 1886, until at least January 1899 [see note 2]; Mme A. Holtz, Paris; dealer Durand-Ruel [see note 3]; Arthur B. Emmons, Newport, Rhode Island, 1911 [see note 4]; auctioned at Highly Valuable Paintings of Sterling Artistic Excellence, American Art Association, New York, January 14-15, 1920, lot 29; purchased by dealer Knoedler & Co., New York on joint account with Durand-Ruel, New York [see note 5]; purchased by Henry Thompson Sloane (1845-1937), New York, December 12, 1923 [see note 6]; inherited by his daughter Jessie Sloane (1883-1968), New York [see note 7]; purchased by Knoedler & Co., New York, December 27, 1946, as “La Mer à Pourville” [see note 8]; purchased by William H. Taylor, Westchester, Pennsylvania, February 1947 [see note 9]; inherited by his niece, Diane T. Walker, Victoria, Australia; purchased by the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 1981
1. Sale to Paul Durand-Ruel according to Charles F. Stuckey. Claude Monet: 1840-1926. London: Thames and Hudson; Chicago; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1995, p. 208 and note 39 and Daniel Wildenstein. Monet. Vol. II. Wildenstein. Paris: Bibliotheque des Arts, 1979, no. 711. Charles F. Stuckey’s chronology of Monet’s life reports that on April 22, 1882, Durand-Ruel purchased sixteen paintings from Monet. On April 25, 1882, Durand-Ruel purchased another seven works from Monet. These are the only works purchased by Durand-Ruel from Monet in April 1822.
2. “Spencer” is recorded as the buyer in an annotated copy of the exhibition catalogue for Works in Oil and Pastel of the Impressionists of Paris, American Art Galleries, New York, April 1886; National Academy of Design, New York, May, 1886 - June 1886, no. 216 (NGA, Washington, D.C.). Albert Spencer listed as the lender for the exhibition Pictures by Claude Monet. New York: Lotos Club, January 1899, no. 2.
3. The Holtz purchase from Spencer and following sale to Durand-Ruel according to Wildenstein, 1979, no. 711.
4. Emmons acquisition of 1981.40 in 1911 is according to Wildenstein, 1979, no. 711.
5. Getty Research Institute, Knoedler stockbook 6, page 219, row 5, no. 14967.
6. Getty Research Institute, Knoedler stockbook 7, page 11, row 21, no. 14967.
7. Jessie Sloane is listed as Mrs. George D. Widener in Knoedler book 9, page 141, row 41, no. A3605.
8. Getty Research Institute, Knoedler stockbook 9, page 141, row 41, no. A3605.
9. See note 8.