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Invoice from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, to Robert Sterling Clark for the purchase of one painting. Dated 5 May 1952.

Claude Monet

French, 1840–1926

Street in Sainte-Adresse

1867

Monet grew up in Le Havre, Normandy, and in later years, he often painted the beach at Sainte-Adresse, a small fishing village nearby. In this scene, he turns his attention to the town itself. A woman and child look down a sloping street, which draws our eyes to other figures disappearing around a corner. Light plays off cobblestones, walls, and roofs, revealing curling plumes of blue-gray smoke rising from chimneys into the air.

Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 31 1/2 x 23 5/16 in. (80 x 59.2 cm) Frame: 40 7/8 x 32 7/8 x 3 3/4 in. (103.8 x 83.5 x 9.5 cm)
Object Number 1955.523
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status On View

Image Caption

Claude Monet, Street in Sainte-Adresse, 1867, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.523

Select Bibliography

Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967. Art Institute of Chicago.. Paintings by Monet. March 15-May 11, 1975.. 1975.. Brooks, John H. Monet in Massachusetts. Exhibition brochure. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1985. Manchester (NH): Currier Gallery of Art. The Rise of Landscape Painting in France: Corot to Monet. Jan. 29-April 30, 1991; IBM Gallery, New York, July 30-Sept. 28, 1991; Dallas Museum of Art, Nov. 10, 1991-Jan. 5, 1992; High Museum, Atlanta, Jan. 28-March 29, 1992. (Cat. by Kermit Champa et al.). 1991.. The Chunichi Shimbun.. Claude Monet Exhibition. Nagoya City Art Museum; Bridgestone Museum of Art; Hiroshima Museum of Art. Feb.-July 1994. South Bank Centre, London.. Landscapes of France: Impressionism and Its Rivals. May 18-Aug. 28, 1995; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Oct. 4, 1995-Jan. 14, 1996. Cat. by John House.. 1995.. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Paul Tucker.. Claude Monet: Life and Art.. London: Yale University Press.. 1995.. Shimada, Norio and Keiko Sakagami. Claude Monet, Vol. 1. Japan Educational Center for Art, 2001. Wildenstein, Daniel. Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné. 5 volumes. Lausanne & Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1974-1991. Daniel Wildenstein. Monet: Catalogue Raisonné, 4 vols. (in English, French, German).. Wildenstein Institute and Paris: Taschen France and Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag.. 1996. Brettel, Richard et al. Monet and Normandy. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2006. Fowle, Frances, ed. Monet and French Landscapes: Vétheuil and Normandy. National Galleries of scotland in association with the Visual Arts research Institute, Edinburgh. 2006. 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. Ganz, James A. and Richard R. Brettell. Great French Paintings from the Clark: Barbizon through Impressionism. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications; Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2011.

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Provenance

Browne, Paris; [Étienne Bignou, Paris]; [probably Galerien Thannhauser (Justin K. Thannhauser), Berlin, by 1928]; Josef Stransky, New York (by 1931–d. 1936); Estate of Josef Stransky (1936–at least 1945)¹; [Wildenstein, New York]; André Meyer, New York; [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 5 May 1952, as Rue à Fecamp]; Robert Sterling Clark (1952–1955); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. 1. Perry B. Cott, “The Stransky Collection of Modern Art,” Bulletin of the Worcester Art Museum, Winter 1933, p. 147, stated that the Stransky collection would be on loan to the Worcester Art Museum for eighteen months, from winter 1933 to 1934.

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