Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, temps couvert, 1891

paintings

91.4 x 81.6 cm (36 x 32.13 in)

oil on canvas

signed Claude Monet and dated 91 (lower right)

Durand-Ruel, Paris (possibly acquired directly from the artist on 27 January 1892) Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago (possibly acquired from the above on 5 March 1892) Howard Young, New York (probably acquired from the estate of the above circa 1922) Durand-Ruel, New York (acquired from the above on 15 October 1925) Marie-Louise d"Alayer de Costemore d"Arc, Paris (acquired by descent from the above in 1949) (possibly) Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil Pasha, Giza (acquired from the above in 1951) Galerie André Maurice, Paris Robert E. Ricksen, New York Parke-Bernet, New York, 14 April 1965, lot 87 (consigned by the above) Acquavella Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale) Carl Haffenreffer, Rhode Island (acquired from the above in April 1965) Fujii Gallery, Tokyo Acquired by 1990 by the present owner

Paris, Durand-Ruel, Monet , 1892, no. 5 or 15 Boston, Copley Hall, Monet-Rodin , 1905, no. 15 Paris, Palais de Marbre, Paysage Contemporain , 1925, no. 52 Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, Claude Monet , 1928, no. 45, p. 55, illustrated (titled Die Papplen ) (possibly) Venice, XVIII Biennale , Mostra individuale retrospettiva Cl. Monet , 1932, no. 9 (possibly) Venice, XXI Biennale, 1938 New York, Acquavella Galleries, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley: Four Masters of Impressionism , 1968, no. 47, illustrated in color (titled Les Peupliers ) Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago and London, Royal Academy of Art, Monet in the ‘90s, The Series Paintings , 1990, no. 34, pl. 38, pp. 118 and 297, illustrated in color Tokyo, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Nagoya City Art Museum and Hiroshima Museum of Art, Monet: A Retrospective , 1994, no. 53, p. 172, illustrated in color Paris, Musée du Luxembourg; London, The National Gallery and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Inventing Impressionism, Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art Market , 2014-15, no. 54, p. 258, illustrated in color

Oscar Reuterswärd, Monet , Stockholm, 1948, no. 96, p. 205, illustrated Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et Catalogue raisonné , vol. III, Lausanne and Paris, 1979, no. 1299, pp. 148-49 and 263-64, illustrated Paul Hayes Tucker, Monet, Le Triomphe de la lumière , Paris, 1990, pl. 38, pp. 115, 117 and 121, illustrated Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et Catalogue raisonné, supplement , vol. V, Lausanne, 1991, no. 1299, p. 48 Daniel Wildenstein, Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Cologne and Lausanne, 1996, no. 1299, p. 520; p. 510, illustrated in color Daniel Wildenstein, Monet, or the Triumph of Impressionism, Cologne, 1999, p. 280

Artistic Reverie: Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Japan Claude Monet 1840 - 1926 Peupliers au bord de l"Epte, temps couvert signed Claude Monet and dated 91 (lower right) oil on canvas 36 by 32 ⅛ in. 91.5 by 81.5 cm. Executed in 1891.