On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)1868
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About this work
Here Claude Monet’s future wife, Camille Doncieux, sits on an island in the Seine River, looking toward the hamlet of Gloton, next to the town of Bennecourt, from which she and Monet have presumably rowed. This is the only painting to survive from the brief period that the couple spent in Gloton, which the novelist Émile Zola recommended to Monet as a cheap rural retreat that was easily accessible from Paris. Pentimenti (visible traces of earlier painting beneath a layer or layers of paint) suggest that in an early stage of the painting, Camille held a bonneted child, presumably the couple’s baby, Jean.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 81.5 × 100.7 cm (32 1/16 × 39 5/8 in.)
Museum record · 1 owner · 25 exhibitions
Provenance
- Louis Aimé Léon Clapisson, Neuilly-sur-Seine, by June 21, 1889, for 500 francs; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, April 21, 1892, for 1,500 francs; sold to Potter Palmer (d. 1902), Chicago, May 18, 1892, for 7,500 francs; by descent to the Potter Family, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
Exhibitions
- Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Claude Monet—A. Rodin, June 21–Sept. 21, 1889, as Au bord de l’eau; Bennecourt.
- Appartient à M. Clapisson.
- Boston, Copley Society, Loan Collection of Paintings by Claude Monet and Eleven Sculptures by Auguste Rodin, Mar. 1905, as Argenteuil.
- Lent by Mrs. Potter Palmer.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Potter Palmer, May 10–Nov. 1910, as Belle Isle, sunshine or, as The river.
- Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Nov. 1, 1933.
- Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934.
- City Art Museum of St. Louis, Paintings by French Impressionists (1860–1880), Apr. 17–May 16, 1934, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1–June 15, 1957, no cat. no. Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Claude Monet: An Exhibition of Paintings, Aug. 17–Sept. 15, 1957; London, Tate Gallery, Sept. 26–Nov. 3, 1957.
- New York, Wildenstein and Co., Masterpieces: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings; A Memorial Exhibition for Adele R. Levy, Benefit of the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, Inc., Apr. 6–May 7, 1961.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15–May 11, 1975.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Frédéric Bazille and Early Impressionism, Mar. 4–Apr. 30, 1978.
- Paris, Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais, Hommage à Claude Monet (1840–1926), Feb. 8–May 5, 1980.
- Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27–Aug. 31, 1980.
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–Sept. 16, 1984; Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 23, 1984–Jan. 6, 1985; Paris, Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais, as L’impressionnisme et le paysage français, Feb. 4–Apr. 22, 1985.
- Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Shikago bijutsukan insho-ha ten, Oct. 18–Dec. 17, 1985; Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5–Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4–Apr. 13, 1986.
- Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, Lighting Up the Landscape: French Impressionism and Its Origins, Aug. 1–Oct. 19, 1986.
- Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Impressionnisme: Les origines, 1859–1869, April 19–August 8, 1994; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Origins of Impressionism, September 27, 1994–January 8, 1995.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, July 22–Nov. 26, 1995.
- Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, Impressionists on the Seine: A Celebration of Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party, Sept. 21, 1996–Feb. 23, 1997.
- Kunsthalle Bremen, Monet und Camille: Frauenportraits im Impressionismus, October 15, 2005–February 26, 2006.
- Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth, Feb. 14–Apr. 26, 2009.
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, Monet and the Impressionist Revolution, 1860-1910, Nov. 14, 2015-Mar 20, 2016.
- Fort Worth, Texas, Kimbell Art Museum, Monet: The Early Years, Oct. 16, 2016-Jan. 29, 2017, then to San Francisco, California, Legion of Honor, Feb.25-May 29, 2017.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021.
