Waterlilies or The Water Lily Pond (Nymphéas)

Waterlilies or The Water Lily Pond (Nymphéas)

1904
Artist
Claude Monet, French, 1840-1926
Born: Paris, France
Country
France
Object
painting
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Accession Number
1935.14
Credit Line
Funds from Helen Dill bequest

Claude Monet, Waterlilies or The Water Lily Pond (Nymphéas), 1904. Oil paint on canvas; 34⅝ × 36 in. Funds from Helen Dill bequest, 1935.14

Dimensions
image height: 34.6260 in, 87.95 cm; image width: 36.0000 in, 91.44 cm; frame height: 42.75 in, 108.5850 cm; frame width: 44 in, 111.7600 cm; frame depth: 3.25 in, 8.2550 cm
Inscription
[lower right] Claude Monet 1904
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, Paris) for three-fourths and (Bernheim-Jeune) for one-fourth, June 3, 1909, no. 9073; purchase, (Durand-Ruel, New York), January 18, 1910, no. 3364; purchase, (Durand-Ruel, Paris), March 12, 1910; purchase, (Durand-Ruel, New York), March 10, 1911, no. 3419; purchase, Katherine W. Toll (née Wolcott) [1854–1936], Denver, (same day); purchase, Denver Art Museum, 1935.
Exhibition History
  • "Les Nymphéas, série de paysages d’eau par Claude Monet"—Galerie Durand-Ruel, 05/06/1909–06/05/1909, no. 3
  • "Claude Monet: Seasons and Moments"—Museum of Modern Art, New York, 03/09/1960–05/15/1960
  • Los Angeles County Museum, 06/14/1960–08/07/1960, no. 105
  • "Claude Monet", For the Benefit of the New York Hospital—Acquavella Galleries, New York, 10/27/1976–11/28/1976, no. 62
  • "Monet’s Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism"—Metropolitan Museum of Art, 04/22/1978-07/09/1978
  • Saint Louis Art Museum, 08/01/1978-10/08/1978
  • "Claude Monet: Painter of Light"—Auckland Art Gallery, 04/29/1985 - 05/28/1985
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06/11/1985 - 07/23/1985
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 08/06/1985 - 09/17/1985
  • "Claude Monet"—Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 04/29/1986 - 06/30/1986, no. 105
  • On loan to the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, 1992
  • "Claude Monet, 1840-1926"—Art Institute of Chicago, 07/22/1995 - 11/26/1995
  • "Monet in the 20th Century"—Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 09/20/1998 - 12/27/1998
  • Royal Academy of Arts in London, 01/23/1999 - 04/18/1999
  • "Monet, le cycle des Nymphéas"—Musèe National de l’Orengerie, Paris, 05/06/1999 - 08/02/1999
  • "Claude Monet"—Spätwerk und Moderne, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, 11/23/2001 - 03/10/2002
  • "Claude Monet… bis zum digitalen Impressionismus"—Fondation Beyeler, Basel/Riechen, Switzerland, 03/28/2002 - 08/04/2002, no. 22
  • "Monet and Abstraction"—Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 02/23/2010 - 05/30/2010
  • "Impressionist Gardens"—National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 07/31/2010 - 10/17/2010
  • "Monet’s Waterlilies"—Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 02/17/2011 - 06/12/2011
  • "Monet in Giverny: Landscapes of Reflection"—Cincinnati Art Museum 02/04/2012 - 05/13/2012
  • "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
  • “In Bloom: Painting Flowers in the Age of Impressionism” — Denver Art Museum, 07/19/2015 – 10/11/2015
  • "Painting the Modern Gardens: Monet to Matisse"—The Cleveland Museum of Art, 10/11/2015 - 01/03/2016
  • On loan to Fondazione Magnani Rocca, 08/01/2016 - 12/31/2016
  • "Impressionism: The Art of Landscape"—Museum Barberini, 01/21/2017 - 05/28/2017, no. 65
  • "Reflections on Monet"—San Diego Museum of Art, 06/01/2017 - 02/01/2018
  • “Dior: From Paris to the World” — Denver Art Museum, 11/18/2018 – 3/17/2019
  • “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