The Promenade with the Railroad Bridge, Argenteuil
- Date
- 1874
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- depicts
- Argenteuil, Île-de-France region, France, Europe
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 21 1/8 x 28 3/8 in. (53.7 x 72.1 cm)
framed: 30 1/2 x 37 7/8 x 4 5/16 in. (77.5 x 96.2 x 11 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of Sydney M. Shoenberg Sr.
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 45:1973
NOTES
This work was painted in the year of the first Impressionist exhibition and displays Claude Monet’s characteristically sketchy brushwork. The light gray color of the canvas ground remains visible across much of the picture surface. Monet represented his wife Camille and son Jean walking alongside the River Seine, while in the distance a train crosses the recently constructed railroad bridge. Monet lived in the Parisian suburb of Argenteuil from 1871 until 1878 and produced an extensive body of work there focusing on themes of leisure and industry.
Provenance
Auguste Pellerin (1852-1929), Paris, France
- 1899
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France
1899 -
Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861-1942), Paris, France [1]
by 1942 - still in 1943
John Enrico Fattorini (1878-1949), England [2]
Captain Edward H. Molyneux (1891-1974), Paris, France [3]
Comtesse de la Frégonnière
- 1953
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, USA
1953/01/02 - 1973
Stella H. Shoenberg (d.1967) and Sydney M. Shoenberg Sr., St. Louis, MO, purchased from M. Knoedler & Co. [4]
1973 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by Sydney M. Schoenberg Sr. [5]
Notes:
The main source for this provenance is the catalogue raisonné, cat. no. 321 [Wildenstein, Daniel. "Monet or the Triumph of Impressionism." Cologne: Wildenstein Institute, 1996]. Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[1] Blanche was a well-known artist and collector of the first decades of the 20th century. The catalogue raisonné indicates that Blanche acquired the work in 1899, but he is also reputed to have acquired many works by Monet from Durand-Ruel in 1886 [Rewald, John. "Studies in Post-Impressionism." New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 98]. Blanche himself mentions the work in a 1927 article, saying that he owned the work for a long time [Blanche, Jacques-Emile. "Claude Monet." "La Revue de Paris" (January - February 1927): 567]. However, the article does not indicate the exact dates of Blanche's ownership.
[2] Fattorini, owner of a successful mail order business, also possessed an excellent collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings from the seventeenth century ["Old Master Paintings." Sothebys, London, December 11, 2001, p. 150]. He is listed as the painting's owner in the catalogue for a 1942-1943 exhibition ["Nineteenth Century French Paintings." London: National Gallery of Art, (annotated) 1942/3, cat. no. 41].
[3] Captain Molyneux was a fashion designer and avid collector of art [National Gallery of Art, provenance website, www.nga.gov]. His collection was exhibited in 1952 at the National Gallery, Washington D.C. and the Museum of Modern Art, New York ["French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection." Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1952]. This painting is not included in that show's catalog, suggesting that it had left the Molyneux collection by that time.
[4] Per list of Shoenberg gifts [SLAM document files].
[5] Minutes of the Acquisitions Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, April 4, 1973.
- 1899
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France
1899 -
Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861-1942), Paris, France [1]
by 1942 - still in 1943
John Enrico Fattorini (1878-1949), England [2]
Captain Edward H. Molyneux (1891-1974), Paris, France [3]
Comtesse de la Frégonnière
- 1953
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, USA
1953/01/02 - 1973
Stella H. Shoenberg (d.1967) and Sydney M. Shoenberg Sr., St. Louis, MO, purchased from M. Knoedler & Co. [4]
1973 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by Sydney M. Schoenberg Sr. [5]
Notes:
The main source for this provenance is the catalogue raisonné, cat. no. 321 [Wildenstein, Daniel. "Monet or the Triumph of Impressionism." Cologne: Wildenstein Institute, 1996]. Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[1] Blanche was a well-known artist and collector of the first decades of the 20th century. The catalogue raisonné indicates that Blanche acquired the work in 1899, but he is also reputed to have acquired many works by Monet from Durand-Ruel in 1886 [Rewald, John. "Studies in Post-Impressionism." New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 98]. Blanche himself mentions the work in a 1927 article, saying that he owned the work for a long time [Blanche, Jacques-Emile. "Claude Monet." "La Revue de Paris" (January - February 1927): 567]. However, the article does not indicate the exact dates of Blanche's ownership.
[2] Fattorini, owner of a successful mail order business, also possessed an excellent collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings from the seventeenth century ["Old Master Paintings." Sothebys, London, December 11, 2001, p. 150]. He is listed as the painting's owner in the catalogue for a 1942-1943 exhibition ["Nineteenth Century French Paintings." London: National Gallery of Art, (annotated) 1942/3, cat. no. 41].
[3] Captain Molyneux was a fashion designer and avid collector of art [National Gallery of Art, provenance website, www.nga.gov]. His collection was exhibited in 1952 at the National Gallery, Washington D.C. and the Museum of Modern Art, New York ["French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection." Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1952]. This painting is not included in that show's catalog, suggesting that it had left the Molyneux collection by that time.
[4] Per list of Shoenberg gifts [SLAM document files].
[5] Minutes of the Acquisitions Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, April 4, 1973.
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