Claude Monet
Edge of the Cliff at Pourville, 1882
On view
39 further works by Monet
Copy link
Oil on canvas, 60,5 x 81,5 cm
Signed and dated lower right: Claude Monet 82
Inv.-no. MB-Mon-12
In Normandy, Monet did not only paint tourist sights such as the famous rock formations of the Porte d’Aval and the Aiguille. Here he chose a marginal motif and made it spectacular by means of perspective. Similar to a photograph, the grassy edge of the cliff is in sharp focus, while the surface of the sea, the sky, and the cliffs of the bay in the distance are blurred.
Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris, American Art Galleries, New York, April 1886; National Academy of Design, New York, May/June 1886, no. 295 (On the Cliff)
Troisième exposition annuelle des XX, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, February 6, 1886, no. 9
Paintings by Old Masters, and Modern Foreign and American Painters, Together with an Exhibition of the Work of Claude Monet the Impressionist, Union League Club, New York, February 12–14, 1891, no. 54 (The Cliffs)
Pictures by Claude Monet, Lotos Club, New York, January 1899, no. 20 (On the Cliff)
Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, January 26–February 14, 1907, no. 10 (?)
Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, January 21–May 28, 2017
Rodin im Dialog mit Monet: Die gemeinsame Ausstellung im Jahr 1889, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, May 31–October 3, 2017
Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature, Denver Art Museum, October 20, 2019–February 2, 2020
Monet: Orte, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, February 22–July 19, 2020, no. 90
Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, from September 5, 2020
probably December 1883, Galerie
Durand-Ruel, Paris, purchased from the artist
May 1886, William H. Fuller, New York, acquired from the above
March 12–13, 1903, American Art Association, New York, Collection
William H. Fuller, lot 152
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, acquired at the above sale
January 10, 1907, Arthur B. Emmons, New York and Newport, acquired from
the above
1922, Julia W. Emmons, New York, inherited from the above
1956, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acquired by bequest from
the above, inv.-no. 56.135.2
May 7, 2014, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 10, consigned by the above
Pierre Hepp, “L'Exposition de Monet,” in L'Art dans les Deux Mondes (February 28, 1891), p. 173
“A Late Exhibition,” in The New York World (May 25, 1886)
Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris, exh. cat. National Academy of Design / American Art Galleries, New York 1886, no. 295
Paintings by Old Masters, and Modern Foreign and American Painters, Together with an Exhibition of the Work of Claude Monet the Impressionist, exh. cat. The Union League Club, New York 1891, no. 20
Pictures by Claude Monet, exh. cat. Lotos Club, New York 1899, no. 20
“W. H. Fuller's Monets sold,” in The Sun (March 14, 1903)
Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet, exh. cat. Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York 1907, no. 10 (?)
Octave Maus, Trente années de lutte pour l'art: 1884–1914, Brussels 1926, p. 43
Lionello Venturi, Les Archives de l’Impressionnisme, Paris/New York 1939, p. 268
Charles Sterling and Margaretta M. Salinger, French paintings: A catalogue of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1967, p. 134
Lionello Venturi, Les archives de l'impressionnisme: Lettres de Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley et autres; mémoires de Paul Durand-Ruel, New York 1968
Douglas Cooper, “The Monets in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” in Metropolitan Museum Journal (March 1970), ill. p. 294
Luigina Rossi Bortolatto, L'Opera Completa di Claude Monet 1870-1889, Milan 1972, ill. p. 103
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. 2, Lausanne 1979, no. 752, ill. p. 77
Paul Hayes Tucker, Claude Monet: Life and Art, New Haven 1995, p. 109
Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue Raisonné. Werkverzeichnis, vol. 2, Cologne 1996, no. 752, ill. p. 281
Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, exh. cat. Museum Barberini, Potsdam 2017, no. 15, ill. p. 88, 109
Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature, exh. cat. Denver Art Museum, Denver 2019, no. 90, ill. p. 205
Monet: Orte, exh. cat. Museum Barberini, Potsdam 2020, no. 90, ill. p. 205
Do you have suggestions or questions?
sammlung@museum-barberini.de.