Le Pont de Bois

Le Pont de Bois
Circa 1872
Oil on canvas
54 x 73 cm
signed Claude Monet (lower left)
Edouard Manet, Paris (acquired from the artist in 1872) Mme Edouard Manet, Paris (by descent from the above in 1883) Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired in 1886) Alphonse Portier, Paris (acquired in 1888) Edmond Decap, Paris (sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15th April 1901, lot 15) Maurice Barret-Decap, Paris (sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12th December 1929, lot 7) Henri Canonne, Paris (purchased at the above sale) Jacques Canonne, Paris (acquired from the above circa 1961) Mme Jacques Canonne, Paris (by descent from the above in 1963. Sold: Sotheby’s, London, 29th April 1964, lot50) L. Harding (purchased at the above sale) Norton Simon, Los Angeles (acquired circa 1968. Sold: Christie’s, London, 30th November 1971, lot 24) Gustav Rau, Zurich, purchased at the above sale
Arsène Alexandre, La Collection Canonne, Une Histoire en action de l’Impressionnisme et de ses Suites, Paris,1930, illustrated p. 12 Paul Jamot & Georges Wildenstein, Manet, Paris, 1932, listed Claude Monet: The Early Years – From British Collections in Aid of Police Dependants, The Lefevre Gallery, London, 1969, mentioned p. 115 Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, biographie et catalogue raisonné, Paris & Lausanne, 1974, vol. I, no. 195,illustrated p. 203 Alice Bellony-Rewald, The Lost World of the Impressionist, London, 1976, illustrated p. 117 Yvon Taillandier, Claude Monet. Meister der modernen Kunst, Munich, 1977, illustrated p. 115 Joel Isaacson, Claude Monet. Observation et Réflexion, Oxford, 1978, no. 35, illustrated p. 93 Luigina Rossi Bortolatto & Janine Bailly-Herzberg, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Monet, 1870-1889, Paris, 1981, no. 60, illustrated p. 92 Paul Hayes Tucker, Monet at Argenteuil, New Haven & London, 1982, illustrated p. 60 Robert Gordon & Andrew Forge, Monet, New York, 1983, illustrated p. 54 Douglas Skeggs, River of Light, Monet’s Impressions of the Seine, London, 1987, illustrated p. 76 Jean-Jacques Lévêque, Les années impressionnistes – 1870-1889, Paris, 1990, illustrated p. 220 Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, biographie et catalogue raisonné, Paris & Lausanne, 1991, vol. V, listed p. 25 Virginia Spate, The Colour of Time – Claude Monet, London, 1992, illustrated p. 88 Paul Hayes Tucker, Claude Monet. Life and Art, New Haven & London, 1995, no. 67, illustrated in colour p. 56 Daniel Wildenstein, Monet, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. II, no. 195, illustrated in colour p. 89 Impressionists in Winter – Effets de Neige, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1999, illustrated p. 66 Impression: Painting Quickly in France 1860-1890, The National Gallery, London, London, 2000, no. 79, illustrated in colour p. 128
Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Claude Monet, 1931, no. 25 Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art & San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, The New Painting. Impressionism 1874-1886, 1986, illustrated in the catalogue Tokyo, Bridgestone Museum of Art; Nagoya, Nagoya City Art Museum & Hiroshima, Hiroshima Museum of Art, Monet: A Retrospective, 1994, no. 18, illustrated in colour in the catalogue Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet, 1995, no. 29, illustrated in colour in the catalogue Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Claude Monet, 1996, illustrated in colour the catalogue Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection, Impressionists on the Seine. A Celebration of Renoir’s ‘Luncheon of the Boating Party’, 1996-97, no. 14, illustrated in colour in the catalogue Tokyo, Yasuda Kasai Museum of Art; Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum; Matsue, Shimane Art Museum; Yokohama, Sogo Museum of Art; Matsuyama, The Museum of Art; Paris, Musée du Luxembourg; Rotterdam, Kunsthalle; Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum; Munich, Haus der Kunst; Bergamo, Accademia Carrara; Bogota, Casa de la Moneda; Portland, Portland Art Museum; Dayton, The Dayton Art Institute; Nashville, Tennessee State Museum & Lisbon, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Meisterwerke von Fra Angelico bis Bonnard. Fünf Jahrhunderte Malerei. Die Sammlung des Dr. Rau, 1999-2006, no. 60, illustrated in colour in the catalogue