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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 7, 2020 | Christie's | New York | 20th Century Evening Sale | 21 | $****** - ****** | L’église de Vernon |
paintings
65.4 x 81.3 cm (25.75 x 32 in)
oil on canvas
Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired from the artist, 10 October 1890).
Harris Whittemore, Naugatuck, Connecticut (acquired from the above, 20 December 1890).
By descent from the above to the present owner.
Naugatuck, Connecticut, The Tuttle House, Exhibition of Paintings for the Benefit of the Children’s Center, April 1938, p. 5, no. 15 (dated 1880).
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (on extended loan, September 1997-February 2020).
E. Waldmann, “Art in America” in The Burlington Magazine, April 1910, vol. 17, no. 85, p. 65.
E. Waldmann, “Französische Bilder in amerikanischem Privatbesitz” in Kunst und Künstler, 1910-1911, vol. IX, p. 142.
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1979, vol. II, p. 108, no. 842 (illustrated, p. 109).
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1979, vol. III, p. 259, letter 1078.
M. Alphant, Claude Monet: Une vie dans le paysage, Milan, 1993, pp. 358-359.
D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. II, p. 313, no. 842 (illustrated, p. 312).
A.Y. Smith, Hidden in Plain Sight: The Whittemore Collection and the French Impressionists, Roxbury, Connecticut, 2009, p. 88 (illustrated in color, p. 46; dated 1880).
A.Y. Smith, “The Whittemores of Connecticut: Pioneer Collectors of French Impressionism” in Antiques and Fine Art, Spring 2010, vol. X, issue 2, p. 158 (illustrated in color, fig. 2; dated 1880; with incorrect dimensions).
T. Takacs, “A Place In Naugatuck History: The Whittemore Family Art Collection” in Naugatuck Patch, 24 June 2011.
