Le Phare de Honfleur

1864

on display

Claude Monet1840 Paris – 1926 Giverny

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.In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.

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

Signature

inscr. b. l.: C. Monet

Inscriptions

Catalogue raisonné

Wildenstein Monet II.23.38

Accession year

1968

Provenance

Claude Monet (*1840 Paris, +1926 Giverny (Seine)) (Künstler/-in)
François Depeaux (*1853 Bois-Guillaume, +1920 Mesnil-Esnard) (Sammler/-in), Rouen
25.4.1901, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Lot 33, Versteigerung Depeaux
25.4.1901 – o.D., Bernheim-Jeune, Kauf
Lord Grimthorpe (Sammler/-in)
12.5.1906, Christie`s London (Auktion), London, Lot 7
1906, Rosenberg und Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
ca. 1913 – 1922, Hugo Nathan (*1861 Frankfurt am Main, +1922 Frankfurt am Main) (Sammler/-in), Frankfurt a. M.
1922 – mindestens bis 4.12.1938, Martha Nathan (*1874 Frankfurt a. M., +1958 Genf) (Sammler/-in), Frankfurt/Genf, Nachlass
Paul Bottenwieser (+1943 New York, NY), New York, NY
o.D. – 30.6.1953, Adolf Jöhr (*1878 Bern, +1953 Zürich) (Sammler/-in), Zürich
1953 – 1975, Walter A. Jöhr (*1910 Zürich, +1987 Zürich) (Sammler/-in), St. Gallen, Nachlass
1968 – 1975, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, Leihgabe
ab 1975, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, Geschenk der Erben Adolf Jöhr

Literature (provenance)

- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007.

About the provenance

This painting belonged to the banker Hugo Nathan from Frankfurt. He collected modern art, mainly French painting. On his death in 1922, the art collection passed to his widow Martha Nathan. In 1930, she transferred a large part of the collection to the Kunsthalle Basel. Martha came from a Jewish banking family in Frankfurt, whose firm was compulsorily liquidated by the Nazis in 1938. That same year, she was forced by the Nazi regime to sell her villa in Frankfurt and hand over paintings from her collection to the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. Owing to Nazi persecution she fled to Paris, where she obtained French citizenship. In 1938, she moved on to Switzerland, where she sold works from her collection. The possessions she had left in France, including numerous artworks, were lost following the Nazi occupation. The circumstances surrounding the sale are under investigation, as they may be linked to Martha Nathan’s Nazi persecution and flight. State of research 11.11.2024 Do you have questions, criticism, suggestions, and further information? Please send us a message to provenienzforschung(at)kunsthaus.ch.

Literature (general)

- Die Meisterwerke, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft/Christian Klemm, Sammlungskatalog Kunsthaus Zürich, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 139 (ill.). - Monet. The Early Years, hrsg. von George T.M. Shackelford, Ausst.-Kat. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth: Kimbell Art Museum, 2016, S. 89 (ill.). - Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 237. - Jahresbericht 1975, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, Zürich, 1976, S. 107-109 [Text: Dagmar Hnikova]. - Manet and the sea, hrsg. von Juliet Wilson-Bareau/David C. Degener, Ausst.-Kat. The Art Institute of Chicago/Philadelphia Museum of Art/Van Gogh Museum, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003, S. 208 (ill.). - Luigina Rossi Bortolatto: L'opera completa di Claude Monet 1870-1889 (Classici dell'Arte 63), Mailand: Rizzoli Editore, 1972, No. 5. - Origins of impressionism, hrsg. von Henri Loyrette/Gary Tinterow, Ausst.-Kat. Galeries Nationales d'Exposition du Grand Palais/Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY: Abrams, 1994, No. 117, ill. No. 79 [Text: Gary Tinterow]. - Daniel Wildenstein: Claude Monet. Biographie et catalogue raisonné, Tome I: 1840-1881, peintures, Bd. 1 von 5, Lausanne: Bibliotheque des Arts, 1974, No. 38. - Monet and the Seine. Impressions of a river, hrsg. von Helga Kessler Aurisch et al., Ausst.-Kat. Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa/The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 2014, S. 19. - Daniel Wildenstein: Monet. Catalogue raisonné. Werkverzeichnis, Bd. 2: Volume II. Nos. 1-968, Köln: Taschen, 1996., No. 38, S.23 (ill.). - Daniel Wildenstein: Claude Monet. The Triumph of Impressionism, Köln: Taschen, 2022, S. 36.

Object type

painting

Classification

C 1[2] painting 19th century FRA

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