Cliffs at Pourville

Provenance

Purchased January 1883 from the artist by (Durand-Ruel, Paris). (Arthur Tooth & Sons, London) in 1939.[1] Lady John Hope; sold 1953 to Mr. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA;[2] gift 1985 to NGA. [1] According to Daniel Wildenstein, _Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné_, Paris, 1974: II:no. 754. [2] According to Paul Mellon records, in NGA curatorial files.

Cliffs at Pourville

Monet, Claude

1882

Accession Number

1985.64.27

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 60 × 100 cm (23 5/8 × 39 3/8 in.) | framed: 78.58 × 118.27 × 6.99 cm (30 15/16 × 46 9/16 × 2 3/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon