Claude Monet Bennecourt

An Eye for Impressionism: Property from an Important American Estate

Claude Monet
1840 – 1926

Bennecourt
signed Claude Monet and dated 87 (lower left)
oil on canvas
32 ¼ by 32 ½ in.
81.8 by 82.5 cm.
Executed in 1887.

Provenance:
John Singer Sargent, London (acquired directly from the artist in August 1887)

Julie H. Heyneman, London and San Francisco (acquired from the above)

Aline Barnsdall, Beverly Hills (acquired by 1940)

Aline Devine, United States (acquired by descent from the above)

M. Knoedler & Co., New York (on consignment from the above)

Pauline Settle Ney, New York (acquired from the above in May 1953)

Sotheby's, New York, 18 November 1986, lot 14 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner