Small Country Farm at Bordighera
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
Title
Small Country Farm at Bordighera
Artist
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
Date
1884
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
29 1/8 × 36 3/8 in. (74 × 92.4 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
1943.39
On View
On view
Provenance
Purchased from Durand-Ruel Galleries, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1943.
Exhibition History
Les XX, la troisieme exposition annuelle, Société des XX, Brussels, 1886, no. 10.
The Impressionists of Paris, National Academy of Design, New York, May–June 1886, no. 296.
Monet, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, 1895, no. 29.
Monet, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, 1902, no. 17.
Impressionism: Paintings by Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Seurat, Sisley, San Francisco Museum of Art, July 1–August 31, 1938, no. 12, lent by Durand-Ruel, Galleries, New York.
Monet, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, 1940, no. 18.
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, December 1941–January 1942, lent by Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York.
Notable Collections at Joslyn, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, November 30, 1956–January 1, 1957.
Old Masters, Sioux City Art Center, Iowa, October 12–November 20, 1960.
Living with Art, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1965.
Mary Cassatt Among the Impressionists, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, April 10–June 1, 1969, no. 34.
Paintings by Monet, Art Institute of Chicago, March 15–May 11, 1975, no. 63.
Claude Monet au temps de Giverny, Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris, 1983, no. 4.
Claude Monet, 1840–1926, Museo Español de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, 1986, no. 50.
Claude Monet, 1840–1926, Musée d’Art Moderne, Liège, Belgium, February 17–June 5, 1992; Museum of Modern Art and Cultural Center, Balingen, Germany, May 11–September 30, 1992, no. 50.
Claude Monet: 1840–1926, Art Institute of Chicago, July 22–November 26, 1995.
Monet and the Mediterranean, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, June 8–September 7, 1997; Brooklyn Museum of Art, October 10, 1997–January 4, 1998, no. 22.
L’oro e L’Azzurro: I Colori del Sud da Cézanne a Bonnard, Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy, October 10, 2007–March 7, 2004.
Mediterraneo: da Courbet a Monet a Matisse, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy, November 27, 2010–May 1, 2011, no. 173.
Joslyn Treasures: Well Traveled and Rarely Seen, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, June 3–August 28, 2011.
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, Cleveland Museum of Art, October 6, 2015–January 5, 2016; Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 30–April 20, 2016.
Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022–January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22, 2023–May 28, 2023.
Published References
Octave Maus, Les XX, exh. cat. (Brussels: Société des XX, 1886), no. 10.
The Impressionists of Paris, exh. cat. (New York: National Academy of Design, 1886), no. 296.
Paintings by Claude Monet, exh. cat. (New York: Durand Ruel, 1895), no. 29.
Paintings by Claude Monet, exh. cat. (New York: Durand Ruel, 1902), no. 17.
Octave Maus, Trente années de lute pour l’art, 1884–1914 (Brussels: Librairie L'Oiseau bleu, 1926), 43.
Impressionism: Paintings by Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Seurat, Sisley, exh. cat. (San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1938), no. 12.
Lionello Venturi, Les archives de l'impressionnisme: Lettres de Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley et autres. Mémoires de Paul Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, Documents (Paris and New York: Durand-Ruel, 1939), 281, 305, 308.
Paintings by Claude Monet, exh. cat. (New York: Durand Ruel, 1940), no. 18.
Living with Art, exh. cat. (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1965), n.p.
Mary Cassatt Among the Impressionists, exh. cat. (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1969), 39, (repro.).
Philip Gurney, “Monet’s Revolt Fathered Today’s Impressionism,” Dundee and West Omaha Sun, April 7, 1970, 46, (repro.).
Susan Wise, Paintings by Monet, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), 117, (repro.).
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. 2, 1882–1886: Peintures (Lausanne: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1979), 120, no. 874, (repro.).
Claude Monet au temps de Giverny, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Culturel du Marais, 1983), 23, 30–31, (repro.).
Charles F. Stuckey, ed., Monet: A Retrospective (New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1985) 139, (repro.).
Paloma Estebal Leal, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, exh. cat. (Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura; Fundacion para el Apoyo de la Cultura, 1986), 290–92, (repro.).
Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 97–101, (repro.).
Françoise Dumont, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, exh. cat. (Liège, Belgium: Musée d’Art Moderne, 1992), 65, (repro.).
Graham W. J. Beal et. al., Fifty Favorites from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1994), 64–65, (repro.).
Andrew Forge, Claude Monet: 1840–1926, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1995).
Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue Raisonné-Werkverzeichnis, vol. 2, Nos. 1–968
(Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH, 1996), 326, 328, no. 874, (repro.).
Silvia Aborno, Monet à Bordighera, exh. cat. (Milan: Leonardo Periodici, 1998), 97, (repro.).
Joachim Pissarro, Monet and the Mediterranean, exh. cat. (Fort Worth, Texas: Kimbell Art Museum, 1997), 92, 95, (repro.).
Roger Benjamin, and David Prochaska, Renoir and Algeria, exh. cat. (Williamstown, Massachusetts: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 68, 70, (repro.).
Marco Goldin, L’oro e L’Azzurro: I Colori del Sud da Cézanne a Bonnard, exh. cat. (Treviso: Linea d'ombra libri, 2003).
Marco Goldin, Mediterraneo: da Courbet a Monet a Matisse, exh. cat. (Treviso: Linea d'ombra libri, 2010), 173, (repro.).
Don Monty et. al., Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, exh. cat. (London: Royal Academy Publications, 2015).
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 22, 198–99, (repro.).