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Morning on the Seine, near Giverny
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
1896
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
73.7 x 93 cm (29 x 36 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection
Accession Number39.655
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
In the summers of 1896 and 1897 Monet set up his easel at three-thirty each morning in a boat moored just off the riverbank near his house at Giverny. There he sat and painted the series of twenty-one canvases to which this one belongs. Grisaille effects of morning mist, trees half-visible in the dawn light, and glimmering reflections on the water make this series arguably the most subtle he ever painted.
InscriptionsLower left: Claude Monet 96
ProvenanceNovember 28, 1898, sold by the artist to Durand-Ruel, Paris (stock no. 3152) [see note 1]; from Durand-Ruel, Paris to Durand-Ruel, New York (stock no. 1900); January 29, 1901, sold by Durand-Ruel, New York to Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago; March 3, 1902, sold by Mrs. Palmer to Durand-Ruel, New York (stock no. 2511); March 22, 1905, sold by Durand-Ruel to Arthur B. Crosby, New York; March 22, 1906, sold by Crosby to Durand-Ruel [see note 2]. 1907, with D. H. Cochran, Jr.; February 19, 1907, sold by D.H. Cochran, Jr. to Durand-Ruel, New York (stock no. 2789); March 21, 1907, sold by Durand-Ruel to Grace M. Edwards (d. 1938), Boston; 1939, bequest of Grace M. Edwards to the MFA [see note 3]. (Accession Date: October 11, 1939)
NOTES:
[1] See letter from Durand-Ruel, Paris to the MFA in curatorial file.
[2] Notes in the MFA curatorial file indicate that he sold the picture on this date, probably to Durand-Ruel, New York.
[3] Siblings Robert (d. 1924), Hannah (d. 1929), and Grace (d. 1938) Edwards were each collectors of art, who seemed to have had joint ownership of the objects in their possession. When Robert died, he bequeathed his collection to the MFA in memory of their mother, Juliana Cheney Edwards. In 1925, after his death, part of his collection was acquired by the Museum, and the remainder went to his sisters, with the understanding that the objects would ultimately be left to the MFA in the collection begun in memory of their mother. The collections of Hannah and Grace were left to the MFA in 1939, following Grace's death. It is not always possible to determine exactly which paintings each sibling had owned.
NOTES:
[1] See letter from Durand-Ruel, Paris to the MFA in curatorial file.
[2] Notes in the MFA curatorial file indicate that he sold the picture on this date, probably to Durand-Ruel, New York.
[3] Siblings Robert (d. 1924), Hannah (d. 1929), and Grace (d. 1938) Edwards were each collectors of art, who seemed to have had joint ownership of the objects in their possession. When Robert died, he bequeathed his collection to the MFA in memory of their mother, Juliana Cheney Edwards. In 1925, after his death, part of his collection was acquired by the Museum, and the remainder went to his sisters, with the understanding that the objects would ultimately be left to the MFA in the collection begun in memory of their mother. The collections of Hannah and Grace were left to the MFA in 1939, following Grace's death. It is not always possible to determine exactly which paintings each sibling had owned.