The Seine near Giverny (La Seine près de Giverny)

The Seine near Giverny (La Seine près de Giverny)

1885
Artist
Claude Monet, French, 1840-1926
Born: Paris, France
Country
France
Object
painting
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Accession Number
38.2017
Credit Line
Frederic C. Hamilton Collection, bequeathed to the Denver Art Museum

Claude Monet, The Seine near Giverny (La Seine près de Giverny), 1885. Oil paint on canvas; 25 × 36 ¼ in. (65.1 × 92.1 cm). Frederic C. Hamilton Collection, bequeathed to the Denver Art Museum

Dimensions
image height: 25 5/8 in, 65.0875 cm; image width: 36 1/4 in, 92.075 cm; frame height: 34 5/8 in, 87.9475 cm; frame width: 45 1/8 in, 114.6175 cm; frame depth: 3 1/4 in, 8.255 cm
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
This object is currently on view
Known Provenance
Purchase from the artist, (Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York), December 1885. Claudette Colbert, New York; purchase, (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York), May 1968; purchase, Julian Cornell [1910–1994], Pennsylvania, by 1968; sale, Estate of Virginia Cornell, (Christie’s, New York), May 12, 1999, no. 25 (repr.). Collection of Frederic C. Hamilton [1927–2016], Denver; bequeathed to the Denver Art Museum, 2014.
Exhibition History
  • "Modern Paintings"—American Art Galleries, New York, 1886-1887, no. 28
  • "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. 168
  • "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
  • "Monet: Places"—Museum Barberini, Potsdam, 02/22/2020–07/19/2020
  • "Monet in Full Light"—Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, 07/08/2023-09/03/2023