After the Rain (Après la pluie)

After the Rain (Après la pluie)

1868
Artist
Claude Monet, French, 1840-1926
Born: Paris, France
Country
France
Object
drawing
Medium
Pastel on buff wove paper
Accession Number
2019.564
Credit Line
The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

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

Dimensions
height: 7 in, 17.7800 cm; width: 11 5/8 in, 29.5275 cm; frame height: 14.5 in, 36.8300 cm; frame width: 19 in, 48.2600 cm; frame depth: 1.75 in, 4.4450 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"
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
Known Provenance
Presented by the artist to his friend André Georges Alfred Barbier [1883–1970], Paris, May 1926; Ms. Bretonnière-Petitjean, France. Ms. Andrée Petit-Jean, Nice; with Wildenstein, New York; from which acquired by Esmond Bradley Martin [1941–2018], Kenya, 2010; gifted to the Denver Art Museum, 2019.
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
  • “Monet and His Places” — Denver Art Museum, October 2019 – May 2020
  • "Monet: The Truth of Nature"—Denver Art Museum, 10/21/2019–02/02/2020, no. 9 (color ill. p. 90, as "After the Rain")