Detail of Camille Monet and a Child in the Artist's Garden at Argenteuil by Monet in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, July 2011

Camille Monet and a Child in the Artist's Garden in Argenteuil

Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

1875

Medium/Technique Oil on canvas

Dimensions 55.3 x 64.7 cm (21 3/4 x 25 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Anonymous gift in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Webster

Accession Number1976.833

Collections: Europe

Classifications: Paintings

Camille, Monet's first wife, is shown with a child in the garden of their house in Argenteuil, near Paris, where they lived between 1872 and 1877. The shimmering reds, blues, greens, and white that capture the brilliance of a sun-drenched day are applied with many small brushstrokes, whose varied shapes create the different textures of flowers, grass, and clothing.

Inscriptions: Lower left: Claude Monet 75

Provenance: October 1875, possibly sold by the artist to Clément Courtois, Mulhouse [see note 1]. Julius Oehme (b. 1833 - d. 1923), Paris. 1900, with Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York. By 1905, Desmond FitzGerald (b. 1846 - d. 1926), Brookline, MA [see note 2]; April 21, 1927, FitzGerald sale, American Art Association, New York, lot 187, sold for $12,000 to Edwin Sibley Webster (b. 1867 - d. 1950) and Jane Hovey Webster (b. 1870 - d. 1969), Newton, MA; by descent to an anonymous donor, New York; 1976, year-end, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 12, 1977)

NOTES:
[1] The provenance given here (to 1927) is taken from Daniel Wildenstein, "Monet: Catalogue Raisonné" (1996), vol. 2, p. 157, cat. no. 382.

[2] He lent the painting to the exhibition "Loan Collection of Paintings by Claude Monet and Eleven Sculptures by Auguste Rodin," Copley Society, Boston, March 1905, cat. no. 29.

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