many ways" and that "Monet was looking at the world and depicting it in way that had not been done before." Provenance Monet sold the painting to Georges de Bellio in November 1876 Monet's Homeopath who was regularly paid in Monet's paintings. It was inherited by de Bellio's daughter Victorine and her husband Ernest Donop de Monchy, acquired by Georges Menier in Paris, and sold in 1965 to Paul Mellon and his wife Bunny Mellon. He donated the painting to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, in 1983. Gallery See also List of paintings by Claude Monet References Paintings by Claude Monet Portraits of women 1875 paintings 19th-century portraits Portraits by French artists Collections of the National Gallery of Art Paintings of children