Bridge at Argenteuil on a Gray Day

Provenance

(Rosenberg, Paris); sold 1 March 1900 to (Durand-Ruel, New York and Paris);[1] sold 1938 to (E.J. van Wisselingh, Amsterdam); sold 1938 to Henry Stevenson Southam [1875-1954], Ottawa.[2] Possibly Whitney.[3] (Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York); sold 27 June 1946 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York;[4] bequest 1970 to NGA. [1] According to letter dated 20 December 1977 from Charles Durand-Ruel, citing DR Paris stock number 5723. [2] According to letter dated 3 January 1978 from M. van der Ven (Secretary, E.J. van Wisselingh & Co.). They had no further information about to whom the painting was sold by Mr. Southam. This may be the painting _Port d'Argenteuil_ lent by Southam to an exhibition at the National Gallery in Ottawa in May 1944. [3] According to the provenance given in Daniel Wildenstein's 1974 catalogue raisonné of Monet's work. Wildenstein's records indicate that this name was given to them by the previous owner, but they had no further information. In 1977 NGA asked John Hay Whitney of New York if the painting had been in his collection, but he responded that it had not been owned by any member of his Whitney family. [4] Provenance according to NGA curatorial records and the Ailsa Mellon Bruce notebook now in NGA archives.

Bridge at Argenteuil on a Gray Day

Monet, Claude

c. 1876

Accession Number

1970.17.44

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 61 x 80.3 cm (24 x 31 5/8 in.) | framed: 82.9 x 102.6 x 8.9 cm (32 5/8 x 40 3/8 x 3 1/2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection