Le Phare de Honfleur

1864

Claude Monet1840 Paris – 1926 Giverny
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In 1865 Monet varied the subject in a larger format (90 x 150 cm) and exhibited it in the Salon (Pasadena, CA, Norton Simon Museum, see Daniel Wildenstein: Monet. Catalogue raisonné, 4 vols. (Cologne 1996), vol. II, no. 51). As in another painting from 1864 (55.5 x 82 cm; Rochester, NY, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, see Daniel Wildenstein: Monet. Catalogue raisonné, 4 vols. (Cologne 1996), vol. II, no. 37), the lower part of the Côte de Grâce and the lighthouse near the hospice are depicted.
Also known as
Le Phare de lʼHospice Der Leuchtturm von Honfleur The Lighthouse at Honfleur Le Phare de l'Hospice. Etude pour le no. 51 [original]
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 54 x 81 cm
Inventory number
1968/0004
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Donated by Dr. Adolf Jöhrʼs heirs (President of the Zurich Society of Art 1922-1940), 1975