Claude Monet
French, 1840–1926
Bridge at Dolceacqua
1884
Medium | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 25 9/16 x 31 7/8 in. (65 x 81 cm) Frame: 35 5/8 x 42 x 3 1/2 in. (90.5 x 106.7 x 8.9 cm) |
Object Number | 1985.11 |
Acquisition | Gift of Richard and Edna Salomon, 1985 |
Status | On View |
Image Caption
Claude Monet, Bridge at Dolceacqua, 1884, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, gift of Richard and Edna Salomon, 1985.11
Select Bibliography
Brooks, John H. Monet in Massachusetts. Exhibition brochure. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1985.
Fort Worth (TX): Kimbell Art Museum. Monet and the Mediterranean. June 8-Sept. 7, 1997; Brooklyn Museum, Oct. 10, 1997-Jan. 18, 1998. Cat. by Joachim Pissarro.. New York: Rizzoli..
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
Daniel Wildenstein. Monet: Catalogue Raisonné, 4 vols. (in English, French, German).. Wildenstein Institute and Paris: Taschen France and Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag.. 1996.
Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
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Provenance
The artist (d. 1926); Michel Monet, his son, Giverny, by descent (1926–65, given to A. D., Feb. 1965);¹ M. and Mme A. D., Paris (1965–67, sale, Sotheby’s, London, 26 Apr. 1967, no. 22, as Le Pont à Bordighera); [possibly E. V. Thaw & Co., New York];² Richard and Edna Salomon (until 1985, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1985. 1. According to the sale catalogue for Sotheby’s, London, 26 Apr. 1967. 2. A label removed from the back of the painting from Thaw & Co. lists it as "Le Pont à Bordighera, and may indicate ownership by Thaw.