The Petite Creuse River
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)1889
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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 began this canvas—one of three of the Petite Creuse—in April 1889 but only returned to it later that spring, by which time the landscape had changed considerably. The oak tree, for example, was sprouting leaves, obscuring the view he had already established. Rather than rework or restart the canvas to depict the current season, Monet hired workers to defoliate the tree so that he could re-create its earlier appearance.
Monet spent three months in the remote Creuse valley in central France beginning in early March 1889 after visiting the region for a few days with art critic Gustave Geffroy in February. Despite bouts of poor health and bad weather, he returned to Giverny having painted 24 canvases. These constituted the artist’s first planned and rigorously defined series of paintings.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 65.9 × 93.1 cm (25 15/16 × 36 5/8 in.)
Museum record · 1 owner · 8 exhibitions
Provenance
- Potter Palmer, (d. 1902) Chicago; by descent to the Potter Family, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
Exhibitions
- Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934.
- University of Chicago, Lexington Hall, Nov. 17–Dec. 17, 1952, no cat. Park Forest Art Center, Mar. 25–Apr. 22, 1956, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1–June 15, 1957, no cat.no. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15–May 11, 1975.
- Milwaukee Art Museum, 1888: Frederick Layton and His World, April 8–August 28, 1988.
- Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Monet in the ’90s: The Series Paintings, February 7–April 29, 1990; Art Institute of Chicago, May 19–August 12, 1990; London, Royal Academy of Arts, September 7–December 9, 1990.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, July 22–Nov. 26, 1995.
- Florence, Sala Bianca di Palazzo Pitti, Claude Monet: La poesia della luce; Sette capolavori dell’Art Institue di Chicago a Palazzo Pitti, June 2–Aug. 29, 1999, no cat. no..
- Paris, Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, Sept. 22, 2010–Jan. 24, 2011.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021.
