Claude Monet
The Windmill on the Onbekende Gracht, Amsterdam

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Artist Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)French, 1840–1926

CultureFrench

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The Windmill on the Onbekende Gracht, Amsterdam

Date1874

PlaceAmsterdam, Netherlands

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions21 1/4 × 25 1/2 in. (54 × 64.1 cm)

Credit LineJohn A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection, gift of Audrey Jones Beck

Object number98.293

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

222 Beck Galleries

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European Art, Beck Collection

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PAINTING

Provenance[Galerie J. Chaine et Simonson, Paris, 1899] [1]; [Galerie Bernheim, Paris, 1899] [2]; [Galerie Rosenberg, Paris, 1899]; [Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1902]; [purchased by Paul Cassirer (1871–Berlin, 1926), Berlin, 15 June 1912] [3]; Bodenheimer, Switzerland and United States; [Wildenstein and Co., New York, 1966]; [Alex. Reid and Lefevre, Ltd., London] [4]; Jennifer (née Stratton, dates unknown) and Thomas D. Neelands (Chicago, 1902–New York, 1972), Jr., New York, 1968; [sold by his estate, Sotheby Park-Bernet, New York, "Important 19th- and 20th Century Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture," 26 April 1972, lot 9, illus. in color]; [Acquavella Galleries, New York, 1972]; purchased by Mr. and Mrs. John A. Beck, Houston, 1972; given to MFAH, 1998.

[1] Provenance details are from Wildenstein (1996), no. 302.

[2] Originally called Galerie Bernheim, the business was founded by Alexandre Bernheim (1839–1915) in 1863.

[3] For more on Cassirer, see Mahler, Luise, "Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer (also known as Galerie Paul Cassirer or Kunstanstalt Paul Cassirer, formerly Kunstsalon Bruno & Paul Cassirer)," The Modern Art Index Project (June 2019), Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://doi.org/10.57011/LHYS2519 (Accessed by Julia May Boddewyn, 15 January 2025).

[4] Reid & Lefevre used a unique blue-framed label on which they handwrote their inventory number. The label on this painting that matches the type they used bears the number: 7955.
Exhibition History"Grosse berliner Kunstausstellung," Berlin, 1903.

"Pictures by Boudin, Manet, and Monet," Grafton Galleries, London, 1905.

"Paysages par Monet et Renoir," Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1908.

"L'Evolution du paysage," La Libre Esthétique, Brussels, 1910.

"Nineteenth and Twentieth Century French Paintings," Lefevre Gallery, London, 1967.

"One Hundred Years of Impressionism: A Tribute to Durand-Ruel," Wildenstein and Co., New York, 1970.

"The Collection of John A. and Audrey Jones Beck," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1974.

"Monet in Holland," Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1986–87.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Signed, lower right: Claude Monet

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