Sandvika, Norway
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)1895
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
Claude Monet’s trip to Norway in 1895 was perhaps the most physically taxing of all his many painting campaigns. Touring the country with his stepson Jacques Hoschedé, who lived in Christiania (now Oslo), he was awestruck but initially frustrated in his search for good motifs amid the snow. Nevertheless, he painted 29 Norwegian scenes during a two-month stay. These included at least six views of Sandvika, a village near Christiania whose iron bridge may have reminded Monet of the Japanese bridge at his home in Giverny.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 73.4 × 92.5 cm (28 7/8 × 36 3/8 in.)
Museum record · 1 owner · 12 exhibitions
Provenance
- The artist (d. 1926); donated to the Alfred Sisley Sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 1, 1899, lot 65; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, for 6,300 francs; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, Oct. 24 or Nov. 13, 1900; sold to Mrs. Harriet Borland (née Blair, d. 1933), Chicago, Feb. 13, 1901, for $3,500; by descent from her son, Bruce Borland, Chicago, 1933; given to the Art Institute, beginning in 1961.
Exhibitions
- Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Exposition de tableaux de Claude Monet, May 10–31, 1895, as Village de Sandviken (Temps de neige) or, as Village de Sandviken.
- Boston, Copley Society, Loan Collection of Paintings by Claude Monet and Eleven Sculptures by Auguste Rodin, Mar. 1905, as Village de Sandriken, Pres Christiania, 1895, lent by Mrs. John Jay Borland.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures of Chicago Collectors, Apr. 15–May 7, 1961, no cat. no. Høvikodden, Norway, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Impresjonismen 100 år, Nov. 1974–Jan. 1975.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15–May 11, 1975.
- Paris, Centre Culturel du Marais, Claude Monet au temps de Giverny, Apr. 6–July 17, 1983.
- 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.
- Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shikago bijutsukan ten: Kindai kaiga no 100-nen, Apr. 20–May 29, 1994; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, July 22–Nov. 26, 1995.
- Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Monet in Norway, January 26–April 8, 1996, no cat. no..
- Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Impressionism and the North: Late 19th Century French Avant-Garde Art and Art in the Nordic Countries, 1870–1920, Sept. 25, 2002–Jan. 19, 2003; Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, Feb. 21–May 25, 2003.
- 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, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021.
