Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Etretat, le cap d'Antifer

Details

Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Etretat, le cap d'Antifer
signed 'Claude Monet' (lower right)
pastel on paper mounted at the edges on board
10 5/8 x 13 5/8 in. (27 x 34.6 cm.)

Provenance

(possibly) Mme. Materne (circa 1894).
Ivan Stchoukine, Paris; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 March 1900, lot 36.
Olivier Vainsère.
Galerie Lorenceau, Paris.
Wildenstein & Co., Paris (circa 1970).
Alice Tully, New York (acquired from the above, 1973); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 10 November 1994, lot 138.
Acquired at the above sale by the previous owner.

Literature

D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné, Lausanne, 1991, vol. V, no. P80 (illustrated, p. 171).

Exhibited

East Hampton, New York, Guild Hall, The Sea Around Us, 1953, no. 45.
Washington, D.C., Adam Davidson Galleries, The French Impressionists and their Followers, December 1971-January 1972.

Lot Essay

Daniel Wildenstein (op. cit.) notes that this pastel is closely related to the painting Le val d'Antifer, 1885 (ibid., vol. II, no. 1039), but it is likely not a study for the painting or a copy by the artist after it. Instead, it is an entirely independent and original work in which the artist renders the motif in a completely fresh manner. In the foreground is a customs agent's hut, one of many built on remote sites along the channel coast during the Napoleonic Wars for use as a lookout point during the British blockade.

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