On view
William R. Elfers Gallery
Meadow at Giverny,
1894
Monet drew inspiration from the countryside in Giverny, a small village in Normandy to which he moved in 1883. This painting—one of four of the meadow at Giverny that he executed in 1894—evokes the flickering, tender hues of early spring.
Information
1894
France, Normandy, Giverny
The artist; [purchased by Georges Petit (1856–1920), [Georges?] Bernheim and Isidore Montaignac in 1898 [1]. [Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris]. [Galerie Paul Durand-Ruel, 1901]. [A.A. Hébrand, Paris, 1906]. Alexandre Berthier, Prince of Wagram (1883– 1918), Paris, 1906. [Galerie Paul Durand-Ruel, 1908]. Henry K. Dick, Class of 1909, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1923; bequeathed to Princeton University Art Museum, 1954.
[1] This transaction appears in the artist's account books for the year 1898 (Musée Marmottan, Paris). See: Wildenstein, Daniel. Monet Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. III. Wildenstein Institute and Taschen, 1996, no. 1368, p. 567.
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