The Meadow
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

Victor Chocquet (1821–1891), Paris, by 1889 [1];
Inherited by his wife, Mme. Chocquet, Paris, 1891–1899;
Her sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 1–4, 1899, lot 74.
With Marie Harriman Gallery, stock book no. 1513, by 1938–1942 [2];
Mr. William Averell Harriman (1891–1986) and Mrs. Marie Harriman (née Norton, formerly Whitney, 1903–1970), New York, 1942–December 28, 1944;
His gift to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1944.

[1] This owner lent the work to the exhibition Monet-Rodin, Galerie Georges Petit, June 21–August, 1889, no. 42.

[2] This owner lent the work to the exhibition Impressionism: Paintings by Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Seurat, Sisley, San Francisco Museum of Art, July 1–August 31, 1938, no. 113.

Claude Monet, La Vie moderne, Paris, 1880, no. 5, as La Prairie.

7e exposition des artistes indépendants, Paris, 1882, no. 86.

Monet-Rodin, Galerie Georges Petit, June 21–August, 1889, no. 42, as Prairie à Vétheuil, lent by M. Choquet.

Quelques oeuvres pa Cl. Monet, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris, 1924, no. 10.

Impressionism: Paintings by Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Seurat, Sisley, San Francisco Museum of Art, July 1–August 31, 1938, no. 113, lent by Marie Harriman Gallery, New York.

Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, December 1941–January 1942.

Centennial Exhibition, Coe College Galleries, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, May 2–June 25, 1952, no. 15.

Notable Collections at Joslyn, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, November 30, 1956–January 1, 1957.

Mary Cassatt Among the Impressionists, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, April 10–June 1, 1969, no. 33.

The Luminists: Painting in France in the Late Nineteenth Century, Mobile Art Gallery, Alabama, November 5–30, 1969.

Paintings by Monet, Art Institute of Chicago, March 15–May 11, 1975, no. 49.

Angels and Urchins: Images of Children at the Joslyn, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, November 15, 1980–January 4, 1981, no. 35.

Claude Monet: Painter of Light, Auckland City Art Gallery, April 29–June 9, 1985; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, June 18–July 28, 1985; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, August 6–September 22, 1985, no. 6.

Claude Monet: 1840–1926, Art Institute of Chicago, July 22–November 26, 1995.

Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte,” Art Institute of Chicago, June 16–September 19, 2004, no. 95.

Monet, la Senna, le ninfee: il grande fiume e il nuovo secolo, Musée de Santa Giulia, Brescia, Italy, October 22, 2004–April 3, 2005.

Claude Monet: Felder in Frühling/Fields in Spring, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, May 20–September 24, 2006, no. 5.

From Corot to Monet: The Ecology of Impressionism, Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano, Rome, March 5–June 29, 2010, no. 80.

Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature, Denver Art Museum October 21, 2019–February 2, 2020; Monet: Places, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany, February 22–July 19, 2020, no. 62.

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–May 28, 2023.

Claude Monet, La Vie Moderne, exh. cat. (Paris: G. Charpentier, 1880), no. 5, as La Prairie.

Octave Mirbeau and Gustave Geffroy, Claude Monet, A. Rodin, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, 1889), no. 42, as Prairie à Vétheuil.

Wynford Dewhurst, Impressionist Painting: Its Genesis and Development (London: G. Newnes, 1904), 111.

Gustave Geffroy, Claude Monet, sa vie, son oeuvre (Paris: G. Crès & cie, 1922), 219.

Quelques oeuvres pa Cl. Monet, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Paul Robsenberg, 1924), 41, 50, 67.

Impressionism: Paintings by Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Seurat, Sisley, exh. cat. (San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1938), no. 113.

Centennial Exhibition, exh. cat. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Coe College Galleries, 1952), no. 15.

M. Rostand, “Quelques amateurs de l'époque impressionniste,” (thesis, l'Ecole du Louvre, Paris, 1955), 154, 160.

Dorothy Burgess, “Monet’s Use of Color Almost Hypnotic,” Dundee and West Omaha Sun, August 16, 1962, 4A (repro.).

Mary Cassatt Among the Impressionists, exh. cat. (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1969), 23, (repro.).

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. 1, 1840–1881: Peintures (Lausanne: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1974), 344, no. 535.

Susan Wise, Paintings by Monet, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), 103, (repro.).

Hollister Sturges, Angels and Urchins: Images of Children at the Joslyn, exh. cat. (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1980), 46, 48, (repro.).

Claude Monet: Painter of Light, exh. cat. (Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery, 1985), 12, 52–53, (repro.).

Charles F. Stuckey, ed., Monet: A Retrospective (New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1985) 110, (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.).

Richard Kendall, Monet by Himself (London: Macdonald & Co., 1989).

Jacques Vilain, Claude Monet–Auguste Rodin: centenaire de l'exposition de 1889, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée Rodin, 1989), 80, (repro.).

Virginia Spate, The Colour of Time: Claude Monet (London: Thames & Hudson, 1992), 143, 148, (repro.).

Graham W. J. Beal et. al., Fifty Favorites from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1994), 62–63, (repro.).

Claude Monet: 1840–1926, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1995).

Anette Dixon, Carole McNamara, and Charles Stuckey, Monet at Vétheuil: The Turning Point, exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1998), 106, (repro.).

Marco Goldin, Monet, la Senna, le ninfee: il grande fiume e il nuovo secolo, exh. cat. (Conegliano: Linea d'ombra Libri, 2004).

Robert L. Herbert, Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte,” exh. cat. (Chicago: art Institute of Chicago and University of Chicago Press, 2004), 57, (repro.).

Christian von Holst and Christofer Conrad, Claude Monet: Felder in Frühling/Fields in Spring, exh. cat. (Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 2006), 24, 26, (repro.).

Stephen Eisenmen, From Corot to Monet: The Ecology of Impressionism, exh. cat. (Milan: Skira, 2010), 244–45, (repro.).

Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue Raisonné-Werkverzeichnis, vol. 2, Nos. 1–968 (Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH, 1996), 209–10, no. 535, (repro.).

Angelica Daneo et. al., Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature, exh. cat. (London: Prestel, 2019), 170, (repro.).

Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 22, 190–91, (repro.).