Tête de chien griffon, Follette

Details

Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Tête de chien griffon, Follette
oil on canvas
14½ x 11 5/8 in. (36.8 x 29.5 cm.)
Painted in 1882

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 16 May 1984, lot 338.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. V, Supplément aux peintures, dessins, pastels, Lausanne, 1991, no. 2007-745bis (illustrated p. 9).
D. Wildenstein, Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Cologne, 1996, no. 745a (illustrated p. 278).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Follette belonged to La Mère Paul (née Eugénie Lavergne), the wife of Paul Graff who ran the Casino-Hotel in Pourville where Monet stayed in 1882. La Mère Paul and Follette feature in another work of 1882 (W.745; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts), painted when she was 63 years old, while Paul himself is the subject of another work from the same year (W.744) in the Österreichische Galerie in Vienna.

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