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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.312
People
Claude Monet, French (Paris, France 1840 - 1926 Giverny, France)
Title
Two Men Fishing
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1883
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296538

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black crayon and scratchwork on paper coated with gesso and incised with fine vertical lines for reproduction by "gillotage"
Dimensions
25.6 x 34.5 cm (10 1/16 x 13 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l., black crayon: Claude Monet
  • inscription: verso, left edge, graphite: 32502
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 44-36
  • inscription: verso, top, graphite: [obscured by hinges]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Terracin; David-Weill. sold in Paris, Hotel Drouot, 1911

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.312
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, ed., One Hundred Master Drawings, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1949), p. 182, repr.
  • Paul J. Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, NY, 1954), pl. 16
  • Claude Monet: A Loan Exhibition, exh. cat., City Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, MO, 1957), cat. no. 102, repr.
  • Ira Moskowitz and Maurice Sérullaz, Drawings of the Masters: French Impressionists, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1962), pl. 81
  • Agnes Mongan, Great Drawings of All Time, ed. Ira Moskowitz and Victoria Thorson, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 797, n.p., repr.
  • Kenneth J. Procter, "Surf and Turf", Drawing (American Artist) (Winter 2007), pp. 72-87, p. 78, repr. p. 79
  • James A. Ganz and Richard Kendall, The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute/Yale University Press (Williamstown, MA, 2007), pp. 195, 199, 200, 301, fig. 193
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 58, 250, repr. p. 251 as fig. 4
  • Joachim Homann and Hollie Buttery, "Escape Artists", Index Magazine, Harvard Art Museums (August 31, 2020), https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/article/escape-artists, accessed September 17, 2020

Exhibition History

  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
  • French Drawings: Masterpieces from Seven Centuries, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 10/13/1955 - 11/27/1955; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 12/02/1955 - 12/29/1955; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 01/07/1956 - 02/11/1956; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 03/07/1956 - 04/10/1956
  • Claude Monet, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 09/25/1957 - 10/22/1957; Society of Fine Arts, Minneapolis, 11/01/1957 - 12/01/1957
  • The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 03/17/2007 - 06/10/2007; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 06/24/2007 - 09/16/2007

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