After the Rain (Après la pluie)

After the Rain (Après la pluie)

1868
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Claude Monet, After the Rain, 1868. Pastel on buff wove paper; 7 × 11 5/8 in. (17.8 × 29.5 cm). Denver Art Museum: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection, 2019.564

Artist
Claude Monet, French, 1840-1926
Born: Paris, France
Country
France
Object
drawing
Medium
Pastel on buff wove paper
Dimensions
height: 7 in, 17.7800 cm; width: 11 5/8 in, 29.5275 cm; frame height: 14 5/8 in, 37.1 cm; frame width: 19 1/8 in, 48.6 cm; frame depth: 2 in, 5.1 cm; height: 7.5 in, 19.0500 cm; width: 12.125 in, 30.7975 cm
Inscription
Signed and dated indistinctly lower left: "Cl. M. 1868" Frame: 867 black ink; 744 chalk Back cardboard: green sticker; 824 chalk
Credit Line
The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
Accession Number
2019.564
Known Provenance
Collection of the Artist; gift, André Georges Alfred Barbier [1883–1970], Paris, 1926. Purportedly, collection of Ms. Bretonnière-Petitjean, France, after 1931. Collection of Ms. Andrée Petit-Jean, Nice, France; purchase, (Wildenstein & Co.), New York, 1988; purchase, Esmond Bradley Martin [1941–2018], Nairobi, Kenya, 2010 [1]; gift, Denver Art Museum, 2019. [1] On loan at the Denver Art Museum since 2011.
Exhibition History
  • "Claude Monet: Exposition rétrospective"—Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, 1931, no. 126 (date erroneously transcribed as 1908)
  • "Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolors: An Exhibition of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Works on Paper"—Wildenstein, New York, 1995, no. 12
  • "Monet, il maestro della luce"—Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, 2000, exh. cat. by M. Restellini, no. 2, pp. 26, 106, repr. (color)
  • "The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings"—Royal Academy of Arts, London, and Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2007, exh. cat. by James A. Ganz and Richard Kendall, no. 102, pp. 121 and ns. 5-7, 122-123, 132, 139, 285 n.35, 286 n.73, 302, repr. (color)
  • "Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings"—Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, and Albertina, Vienna, 2011-12, exh. cat. by Christopher Lloyd, pp. 25, 116, 171, pl. 59 (color)
  • "Passport to Paris"—Denver Art Museum, 10/27/2013–02/09/2014
  • “Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature” — Denver Art Museum, 10/21/2019 – 2/2/2020

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