Claude Monet
The Apple Tree, 1879
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Oil on canvas, 54,2 x 65,5 cm
signed and dated lower right: Claude Monet 1879
Inv.-no. MB-Mon-37
In this scene, painted near Vétheuil, Monet captures the fleeting splendor of an apple tree in full bloom against a cloud-filled sky—as promising and ephemeral as the passing clouds. Since the previous year, when he had left Argenteuil and moved to the secluded village on the Seine, Monet had occupied himself with painting the fruit trees at the foot of the hill of Chantemesle with the church of Vétheuil in the background, the village as seen from the other side of the river, and his first garden.
N.D., Fromentin collection, France
December 5, 1901, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 22, consigned by the above
Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris, acquired at the above sale
May 25, 1906, Paul Cassirer, Berlin, acquired from the above
n.d., Justin K. Thannhauser, Berlin
April 1, 1931, Paul H. Schmolka, Prague and New York, acquired from the above
by 1971, Vera Smolka Sherman, Alexandria, Virginia, by descent from the above
January 1976, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, acquired from the above
May 1978, Dr. and Mrs. Jerome S. Coles, acquired from the above
May 15, 2018, Christie’s, New York, lot 28a, consigned by the above
Private collection, acquired at the above sale
May 2022, Art trade
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