Claude Monet
The Mill at Limetz, 1888
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Oil on canvas, 92 x 72,9 cm
signed and dated lower left: Claude Monet 88
Inv.-no. MB-Mon-39
The composition’s foreground is dominated by the dense foliage of the trees, which Monet painted in rich shades of blue, green and violet. Limetz’s stone flour mill appears to be pushed to the edge in the right-hand background. The choice of the unusual angle heightens the marked sense of immediacy – a key characteristic of Impressionism.
possibly Monet, Galerie Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris, February 1889
Monet, Goupil Gallery, London , April–May 1889, no. III
Monet-Rodin, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June/July 1889, no. 119
Monet and Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, September 5, 2020–February 11, 2021, no. 50
Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, from January 2024
December 31, 1888, Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris, purchased from the artist
August 31, 1891, Lulling Collection, acquired from the above
December 31, 1891, Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris, acquired from the above
May 10, 1892, Bertha and Potter Palmer, Chicago, acquired from the above
ca. 1961, Gordon Palmer, USA, inherited from the above
n.d., Private collection, inherited from the above
November 14, 2023, Sotheby’s, New York, Modern Evening Auction, lot 13, consigned by the above
Alphonse de Calonne, “L’art contre nature,” in: Soleil (June 23, 1889), p. 1.
Gustave Geffroy, Claude Monet. Sa vie, son temps, son œuvre, vol. 4, Paris 1922, p. 118.
John Rewald, “Theo van Gogh, Goupil, and the Impressionists,” in: Gazette des Beaux-Arts LXXXI (1973), p. 63 and 98.
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet. Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. 5, Lausanne 1991, no. 2027-1210bis, p. 14, ill. p. 15.
Daniel Wildenstein, Monet. Catalogue Raisonné. Werkverzeichnis, vol. 3, Cologne 1996., no. 1210a, p. 460–61., ill. p. 461.
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