The Houses in the Snow, Norway (Les Maisons dans la neige, Norvège)

The Houses in the Snow, Norway (Les Maisons dans la neige, Norvège)

1895
Artist
Claude Monet, French, 1840-1926
Born: Paris, France
Country
France
Object
painting
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Accession Number
39.2017
Credit Line
Frederic C. Hamilton Collection, bequeathed to the Denver Art Museum

Claude Monet, The Houses in the Snow, Norway (Les Maisons dans la neige, Norvège), 1895. Oil paint on canvas; 25 5/16 × 36 ½ in. (65.6 × 92.7 cm). Frederic C. Hamilton Collection, bequeathed to the Denver Art Museum

Dimensions
image height: 25.8125 in, 65.5638 cm; image width: 36.5 in, 92.7100 cm; frame height: 38 in, 96.5200 cm; frame width: 48 5/8 in, 123.5075 cm; frame depth: 4 in, 10.16 cm
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
This object is currently on view
Known Provenance
(Hôtel Drouot), Paris, by 1924; purchase, (Bernheim-Jeune), Paris, April 3, 1924; purchase, Henri Canonne [1867–1961], Paris, December 31, 1927 until at least 1940. (Amante or Amanté), Paris. (Dr. Fritz Nathan [1895–1972]), Zurich, c.1935–1957 (?). (Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries), New York, by 1962. (Schoneman Galleries, Inc.), New York, by 1966; purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Zighelboim, Caracas, Venezuela, by 1975. Sale, (Sotheby’s), New York, November 2, 2005, no. 57 (repr.). Collection of Frederic C. Hamilton [1927–2016], Denver; bequeathed to the Denver Art Museum, 2014.
Exhibition History
  • "Monet"—Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1898, no. 15 (?)
  • "Quelques oeuvres de Monet"—Raoul Dufy et Vlaminck, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1925
  • "Cl. Monet"—Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, 1931, no.101
  • "Oeuvres de Cl. Monet de 1891 à 1919"—Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris, 1936, no. 11
  • "Centenaire Monet-Rodin"—Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, 1940, no. 49
  • "French Masters of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century"—Finch College Museum of Art, New York, 05/01/1962—06/09/1962, no. 31
  • "30 Masterpieces of French Art"—Schoneman Galleries, New York, 10/20/1967 – 12/09/1967, no. 16
  • "Monet i Norge/Monet en Norvège"—Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, 07/02/1995 – 09/10/1995
  • Musée Rodin, Paris, 10/02/1995 – 12/03/1995
  • "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