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Claude Monet Painting by Edge a Wood
Presented by Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs Ormond through the Art Fund 1925
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<p>Sargent first met Monet in 1876, but the two artists were closest ten years later. It was probably in 1885 that they painted together at Giverny, near Paris. Sargent admired the way that Monet worked out of doors, and imitated some of his subjects and methods in sketches such as this. It is characteristic of Sargent to give a human view of Monet's practice and of the patience of his wife, who sits behind him. When he settled in London in 1885 Sargent was initially viewed as avant-garde, but came to be the greatest society portraitist of his day.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
8 August 2001 – 21 April 2003
2003-04-21
8 August 2001 – 21 April 2003
2003-04-21
2001-08-08
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-08-08
French Influence on British Art
Collection based display
11 October 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
11 October 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
2002-10-11
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
2002-10-11
Whistler Sargent and Steer - Frist
Tate partnerships & programmes
2 July 2005 – 2 October 2005
2005-10-02
2 July 2005 – 2 October 2005
2005-10-02
2005-07-02
Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK)
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk
2005-07-02
Artists and Collectors in French Realist and Impressionist Art
Loan-out
22 February 2006 – 28 January 2007
2007-01-28
22 February 2006 – 21 May 2006
2006-05-21
2006-02-22
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
25 June 2006 – 24 September 2006
2006-09-24
2006-06-25
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
http://www.mfa.org
16 October 2006 – 28 January 2007
2007-01-28
2006-10-16
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)
http://www.metmuseum.org
2006-02-22
Americans in Paris
Loan-out
12 May 2009 – 17 October 2010
2010-10-17
12 May 2009 – 17 October 2010
2010-10-17
2009-05-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-05-12
Lawrence and Sargent
Collection based display
27 October 2012 – 3 March 2013
2013-03-03
27 October 2012 – 3 March 2013
2013-03-03
2012-10-27
Staatsgalerie (Stuttgart, Germany)
http://www.staatsgalerie.de/
2012-10-27
The Studio - workshop and Myth
Loan-out
1 April 2014 – 31 January 2015
2015-01-31
1 April 2014 – 15 July 2014
2014-07-15
2014-04-01
Musée des impressionnismes (Giverny, France)
16 July 2014 – 31 October 2014
2014-10-31
2014-07-16
National Galleries of Scotland (Edinburgh, UK)
1 November 2014 – 31 January 2015
2015-01-31
2014-11-01
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain)
2014-04-01
The Early Years of American Impressionism
Loan-out
5 February 2015 – 4 October 2015
2015-10-04
5 February 2015 – 25 May 2015
2015-05-25
2015-02-05
National Portrait Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.npg.org.uk
29 June 2015 – 4 October 2015
2015-10-04
2015-06-29
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)
http://www.metmuseum.org
2015-02-05
John Singer Sargent: Artists, Writers, Actors and Musicians
Loan-out
13 February 2016 – 31 May 2016
2016-05-31
13 February 2016 – 31 May 2016
2016-05-31
2016-02-13
Holburne Museum of Art (Bath, UK)
http://www.bath.ac.uk/Holburne/
2016-02-13
Impressionism. Capturing Life
Loan-out
4 October 2018 – 13 January 2019
2019-01-13
4 October 2018 – 13 January 2019
2019-01-13
2018-10-04
Nationalmuseum (Stockholm, Sweden)
http://www.nationalmuseum.se
2018-10-04
John Singer Sargent
Loan-out
31 October 2022
4 October 2021
2021-10-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-10-31
Gallery 8
Collection based display
21 April 2025 – 11 January 2026
2026-01-11
21 April 2025 – 3 August 2025
2025-08-03
2025-04-21
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)
http://www.metmuseum.org
22 September 2025 – 11 January 2026
2026-01-11
2025-09-22
Musée d’Orsay (Paris, France)
2025-04-21
Sargent and Paris
Loan-out
Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood
support: 540 × 648 mm
frame: 618 × 734 × 70 mm
Presented by Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs Ormond through the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1925
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<p>John Singer Sargent first met Claude Monet in 1876, but the two artists were closest ten years later. Sargent admired the way that Monet worked outside, and shared some of his impressionist subjects and methods in sketches such as this one. Here Sargent creates a human view of Monet’s practice and of the patience of his wife, who sits behind him. Sargent was initially viewed as experimental when he settled in London in 1885, but came to be regarded as the greatest society portraitist of his day.</p>
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<p><b>N04103</b> CLAUDE MONET <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>PAINTING</span></a> AT THE EDGE OF A WOOD 1888</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 21 1/4×25 1/2 (54×65).
<br/>Presented by Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs Ormond through the National Art-Collections Fund 1925.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Sargent Sale, Christie's, 24 July 1925 (140), bt. by Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs Ormond for presentation to the Tate Gallery.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Copley Hall, Boston, February–March 1899 (72), as ‘Sketch of Claude Monet painting’; Tate Gallery, June–October 1926.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> <i>N.A.C.F. Report 1925</i>, 1926, p.26, repr.; Downes, 1925, p.150; Charteris, 1927, pp.96–7, 133, 261; Mount, 1955, pp.153, 446 (as 1889); McKibbin, 1956, p.111; Mount, 1957, pp.129–30, 356 (as 1889); Douglas Cooper, <i>Claude Monet</i> (Arts Council exhibition catalogue), 1957, p.28.</p>
<p>Sargent painted two <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portraits</span></a> of Claude Monet, one of which, showing the sitter in profile, was exhibited at the New Gallery, summer 1888 (211), and is described in a review published in the <i>Art Journal</i>, 1888, p.221. Sargent afterwards presented this portrait to the National <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/academy" title="Glossary definition for 'Academy'"><span>Academy</span></a> of Design as his Diploma work. The Tate picture, of the same date, was painted at Giverny in the spring of 1888 (Cooper, <i>op. cit.</i>), and Mme Monet (then still Mme Ernest Hoschedé) is shown to the right of the picture.</p>
<p>Sargent first met Monet some time between 1878 and 1882; at the time of this picture he had recently bought Monet's ‘Rock at Tréport’ and had written to Monet to express the warmest admiration for his work. This portrait of him was painted under his influence which was felt in much of Sargent's work during the years 1888–90. Comparable works are his two pictures of Paul Helleu and his wife, one showing Helleu sketching at Fladbury, the other with his wife and Emily Sargent in boats at Calcot Mill, both painted in 1889 and now in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and Mr Houghton P. Metcalfe, Middleburg, Virginia, respectively.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-05T00:00:00
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