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Lot Essay
In late December 1892 and throughout January 1893 there was a period of intense frost and heavy snowfalls along the Seine. Monet took advantage of this to embark upon a winter campaign to paint a group of approximately fifteen canvases of the frozen Seine (W.1333-1344). Monet set up on the Bennecourt bank and painted the Seine looking towards the hills on the left bank. The islet of Forée, at the centre of the paintings in this series, was at that time situated between the Grande-Ile and the Ile de la Flotte. The group depicts the flow of ice as it begins to thaw from the first intense days of the frost in early January to its thaw on around the 24th January. Three of the series can be found in major public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (W.1335), The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (W.1338) and The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (W.1340).
Glaçons, environs de Bennecourt, which was first owned by the collector/dealer Eugène Blot, entered the collection of the Wormser family in circa 1920 where it remained until the present owner bought it at auction in 1996. The painting can be seen on the wall behind Madame Wormser in the portrait of Mme André Wormser et ses enfants by Edouard Vuillard in the National Gallery of Art, London.
Glaçons, environs de Bennecourt, which was first owned by the collector/dealer Eugène Blot, entered the collection of the Wormser family in circa 1920 where it remained until the present owner bought it at auction in 1996. The painting can be seen on the wall behind Madame Wormser in the portrait of Mme André Wormser et ses enfants by Edouard Vuillard in the National Gallery of Art, London.