Waterloo Bridge, London, at Sunset (original) (raw)
Inscription
lower right: Claude Monet
Provenance
Purchased from the artist December 1920 by (Durand-Ruel, Paris) and (Bernheim-Jeune, Paris); (Durand-Ruel, New York) by 1922.[1] (Sam Salz, Inc., New York); sold 2 November 1960 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1983 to NGA.
Exhibition History
1966
French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 90, repro
1986
Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986, unnumbered checklist
1988
Monet in London, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1988-1989, no. 14, repro.
1996
Claude Monet, Österreichische Galerie, Vienna, 1996, no. 69, repro., as Waterloo Bridge, Pink Effect.
1996
Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, unnumbered catalogue, 170-171, color repro.
1997
Loan for display with permanent collection, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, England, 1997.
2004
Claude Monet, A Hymn to Light: Selected Works from the 1870s and 1890s, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum; Nara Prefectural Museum of Art, 2004, no cat.
2005
Monet's London: Artists' Reflections on the Thames, 1859-1914, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; Brooklyn Museum; The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2005, no. 32, repro.
2011
Turner, Monet, Twombly: Later Paintings, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; Tate Liverpool, 2011-2012, no. 21, repro.
2017
Monet: Light, Shadow, and Reflection, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, 2017, no. 131, repro.
Bibliography
1974
Wildenstein, Daniel. Claude Monet: biographie et catalogue raisonné. 5 vols. Lausanne and Paris, 1974-1991: no. 1583.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 282, repro.