Claude Monet (1840-1926), Le Rio de la Salute

Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Le Rio de la Salute
signed and dated 'Claude Monet 1908' (lower left)
oil on canvas
32 x 25 ½ in. (81.3 x 64.9 cm.)
Painted in 1908

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Provenance
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris and Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired from the artist, March 1912).
Ellen H. Henderson, New Orleans (acquired from the above, November 1912).
Sylvester W. Labrot, Jr., Hobe Sound, Florida (by descent from the above, 1939).
Robert Leonhardt, New York.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.
Tyler G. Gregory, Pasadena.
Stephen Hahn, New York.
Thomas D. Neelands, Jr., New York; Estate sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 26 April 1972, lot 5.
Stanford Z. Rothschild, Jr., Baltimore (acquired at the above sale).
Gift from the above to the present owner.

Pre-Lot Text
Property from the Rothschild Art Foundation

Literature
Letter from C. Monet to G. Bernheim-Jeune, 29 March 1912, reproduced in D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, 1899-1926, peintures, Lausanne, 1985, vol. IV, p. 384, no. 2001a.
Letter from P. Durand-Ruel to Monet, 17 April 1912, reproduced in D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, 1899-1926, peintures, Lausanne, 1985, vol. IV, p. 430, no. 239.
Letter from J. Bernheim-Jeune to Monet, 17 May 1912, reproduced in D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, 1899-1926, peintures, Lausanne, 1985, vol. IV, p. 430, no. 240.
A. Alexandre, "La vie artistique: Claude Monet et Venise" in Le Figaro, 29 May 1912, p. 4.
Letter from A. Cochrane to E. Henderson, 6 November 1912, reproduced in D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, 1899-1926, peintures, Lausanne, 1985, vol. IV, p. 430, no. 254.
G. Geffroy, "La Venise de Cl. Monet" in La Dépêche, 30 May 1912, p. 1.
H. Genet, "Beaux-Arts et Curiosité: Les 'Venise' de Cl. Monet" in L’Opinion, 1 June 1912, p. 698.
G. Lecomte, "La vie artistique: un radieux poème à la gloire de Venise, c'est l'illustre peintre Claude Monet qui nous en donne la joie" in Le Matin, 3 June 1912, p. 6.
A. Michel, "Promenade aux Salons: VI" in Journal des Débats, 5 June 1912, p. 1.
"Art et Curiosité: Venise vue par Claude Monet" in Le Temps, 11 June 1912, p. 4.
G. Geffroy, Claude Monet: sa vie, son temps, son oeuvre, Paris, 1922, p. 318.
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, 1899-1926, peintures, Lausanne, 1985, vol. IV, p. 242, no. 1761(illustrated, p. 243).
D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. IV, pp. 826-827, no. 1761 (illustrated in color, p. 826).

Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Monet: "Venise", May-June 1912, no. 22 (illustrated).
Boston, Brooks Reed Gallery, Monet: Venise, 1912.
Pasadena Art Museum, A View of the Century, November-December 1964, no. 2 (illustrated).
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Monet and the Mediterranean, June-September 1997, p. 172 (illustrated in color, p. 173, pl. 99).
Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, Monet: Paintings of Giverny from the Musée Marmottan, March-May 1998.