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Les Peupliers (Poplars)
Monet, Claude (painter)
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Title/s
Les Peupliers
Translated title
Poplars
Maker/s
Monet, Claude (painter) [ULAN info: French artist, 1840-1926]
Category
painting
Name
painting
School/Style
Technique Description
Dimensions
height: 89
cm
width: 92
cm
Date
1891
Provenance
bequeathed: Sykes, Stanley William 1966 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
The artist's studio, with Gimpel Fils, 1950 from whom bought by Captain SykesCaptain S.W. Sykes, O.B.E., M.C.
Inscriptions/Marks
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signature
Position: lower right
Method:
Content: Claude Monet -
label
Position: stretcher
Method: printed label
Content: Ch. Pottier/ Emballeur/ 14 Rue Gaillon/ Paris (with MS number, and date) 5814, 30-10-35 -
label
Position: verso
Method:
Content: James Bourlet label: No. 43305 -
stamp
Position: stretcher
Method: Douane stamp
Content: Exportation, Paris on both stretcher and canvas -
label
Position: stretcher
Method: MS label, graphite
Content: #128, 158, in red chalk crossed out -
label
Position: stretcher
Method: printed label
Content: Marlborough Fine Art Ltd.,/ Nineteenth and twentieth century French/ Paintings from English private collections. June to July/ 1965 Cat. No. 25 -
number
Position: stretcher
Method: graphite
Content: 499 and #255 -
label
Position: frame
Method: typed label
Content: La littérature est assez sommaire: / Les peupliers / Ce tableau vient directment de l' atelier de Claude Monet, c'est lae plus beau tableau de Peupliers qui se trouve chez lui. On raconte que ces peupliers avaient été achetés par un marchand de bois et que Claude Monet lui avait donné de l' argent pour qu' il diffère l' abattage pour qu' il ait le temps de les peindre. Cela se passait vers 1895 -
label
Position: attached to frame with wire
Content: "Monet", "Les peupliers", "London", the rest illegible
Documentation
- Geffroy, Gustave (1922) de Claude Monet, sa vie, son temps, son oeuvre, [page: 112]
- Wildenstein, Daniel (1979) Claude Monet, biographie et catalogue reisonné, Lausanne [page: 299-300]
- Stuckey, Charles F. (1985) Monet; a Retrospective, New York
[comments: no. 1313] - House, John et. al. (1986) Monet, Nature into Art, New Haven & London: Yale University Press [page: 311]
Accession Number
PD.9-1966 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(Reference Number: 2811; Input Date: 2000-03-08 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)
Related Resources
French Impressionists - Online Exhibition
Education Resources - Factsheets (pdf)
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