Path in the Wheat Fields at Pourville (Chemin dans les blés à Pourville)
1882
Artist
- Claude Monet, French, 1840-1926
- Born: Paris, France
Country
France
Object
painting
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Accession Number
2016.365
Credit Line
Frederic C. Hamilton Collection
Claude Monet, Path in the Wheat Fields at Pourville, 1882. Oil on canvas; 23 × 30 ¾ in. (58.4 × 77.5 cm). Frederic C. Hamilton Collection at the Denver Art Museum, 2016.365
Dimensions
image height: 23 in, 58.4200 cm; image width: 30.5 in, 77.4700 cm; frame height: 31 3/4 in, 80.645 cm; frame width: 39 1/2 in, 100.33 cm; frame depth: 3 1/2 in, 8.89 cm; sight height: 21.75 in, 55.245 cm; sight width: 29.75 in, 75.565 cm
Inscription
[lower right] Claude Monet 82
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
This object is currently on view
Known Provenance
Collection of the Artist; purchase, (Galerie Durand-Ruel), Paris, 1883. Possibly (Galerie Georges Petit), Paris. William H. Fuller [ca. 1843-1902], New York, by 1891. Possibly (Galerie Durand-Ruel) and (Isidore Montaignac [1851-1924]), Paris, by 1897. William H. Fuller [ca. 1843-1902], New York, ca. 1898; sale, American Art Association, March 12, 1903, no. 152; (Durand-Ruel), New York. Edward Pierson Beebe [1843–1926], Boston, by 1905 [1] until at least 1926 [2]. Douglas Maxwell Moffat [1881-1956] and Gertrude Mali Moffat [1894-1984], New York, by 1955; sale, (Christie’s), New York, "Estate of Mrs. Douglas M. Moffat", May 15, 1985, no. 28; collection of Frederic C. Hamilton [1927–2016], Denver; gift, Denver Art Museum, 2016.
[1] Exhibition catalogue for Copley Hall, March 1905, mistakenly dates this work to 1887.
[2] On long term loan at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 19, 1911-October 24, 1911 (loan no. 1621.16), then again October 5, 1916-September 22, 1938 (loan no. 1553.11). Records are unclear who the painting was returned to in 1938.
Exhibition History
- "Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris"—American Art Galleries, New York, 04/1886
- National Academy of Design, New York, 05/1886 – 06/1886, no. 158
- "Monet"—Union League Club, New York, 1891, no. 52
- "Monet"—Copley Hall, Boston, 03/1905, no. 36
- "Monet"—Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 07/1911–10/1911, no. 32
- "Monet"—Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 01/11/1927–02/06/1927, no. 23
- Long-term loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 10/1916– 09/1938
- "Impressionists by the Sea"—Royal Academy of Arts, London, 07/07/2007 – 09/30/2007, no. 58
- The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 10/20/2007– 01/13/2008
- Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 02/09/2008 - 05/11/2008
- "Nature as Muse: Impressionist Landscapes from the Frederic C. Hamilton Collection and the Denver Art Museum"—Denver Art Museum, 10/27/2013 - 02/09/2014
- “Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature” — Denver Art Museum, 10/21/2019 – 2/2/2020
- "Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature"—Denver Art Museum, 10/21/2019-02/02/2020, no. 88
- "Monet: Places"—Museum Barberini, Potsdam, 02/22/2020–07/19/2020
- "Monet in Full Light"—Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, 07/08/2023-09/03/2023, no. 21