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Claude Monet (artist) French, 1840 - 1926 The Artist's Garden in Argenteuil (A Corner of the Garden with Dahlias), 1873 oil on canvas Overall: 61 x 82.5 cm (24 x 32 1/2 in.) framed: 94.6 x 114.3 x 8.8 cm (37 1/4 x 45 x 3 7/16 in.) Gift of Janice H. Levin, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art 1991.27.1 On View |
Provenance
Purchased December 1873 from the artist by (Durand-Ruel, Paris). Baroux Collection. (Durand-Ruel, Paris), in 1896. (Galerie Thannhauser, Berlin), c. 1928. (Sam Salz, New York). Mr. and Mrs. David O. Selznick, New York.[1] private collection, Paris, in 1949. Probably (Durand-Ruel, Paris), in 1959.[2] (Sam Salz, New York), in 1965. Mr. and Mrs. Konrad H. Matthaei, c. 1966. (Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York); sold 1970 to Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. Levin, New York;[3] gift 1991 to NGA.
[1] Provenance according to Wildenstein 1974 catalogue raisonné, volume 1, no. 286.
[2] The painting was lent to a 1949 exhibition in Basel from a private collection in Paris, which may have been Durand-Ruel; it was exhibited at Durand-Ruel in 1959.
[3] According to Janice Levin, quoted in The Washington Post, 21 March 1991 (copy in NGA curatorial files).