The J. Paul Getty Museum

Sunrise (Marine)

Object Details

Title:

Sunrise (Marine)

Artist/Maker:

Claude Monet (French, 1840 - 1926)

Culture:

French

Place:

France (Place Created)

Date:

1872 or 1873

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Object Number:

98.PA.164

Dimensions:

50.2 × 61 cm (19 3/4 × 24 in.)

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Object Description

In the muted palette of the emerging dawn, Claude Monet portrayed the industrial port of Le Havre on the northern coast of France. The brilliant orange of the rising sun glimmers amid the damp air and dances on the gentle rippling water, lighting up its iridescent blues and greens. Barely discernible through a cool haze, pack boats on the left billow smoke from their stacks. Painted during the spring of 1873 as the country struggled to rebuild following the Franco-Prussian war, this Sunrise might also metaphorically suggest a new day dawning in France.

Sunrise exemplifies Monet's plein air, or "outdoor," approach to painting. The informal and spontaneous brushstrokes establish this picture as one of the first works, along with the famous Impression: Sunrise at the Marmottan Museum in Paris, in the Impressionist style that was to make him famous. The ephemeral play of light, water, and air would remain Monet's subject for the rest of his career.

Provenance
Provenance
1873 - 1875

Claude Monet, French, 1840 - 1926 (Giverny, France) [sold, Monet, Morisot, Renoir, and Sisley sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 24, 1875, lot 8, to Henri Rouart.]

1875 - 1912

Henri Rouart, 1833 - 1912 [sold, Rouart sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, December 9, 1912, lot 252, through Durand-Ruel & Cie (Paris, France) to René Stern.]
Source: JPGM Paintings Department, curatorial files, letter from Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy, June 22, 2000.

1912 -

René Stern (Paris, France), by inheritance within the Stern family.

-

Stern Family (Paris, France), by inheritance to Mme Darbois, née Stern.
Source: JPGM Paintings Department, curatorial files, letter from Daniel Wildenstein, January 7, 1999.

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Mme Darbois (Paris, France)

- 1998

Galerie Schmit (Paris, France), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1998.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Exposition des peintres impressionnistes (February 25 to March 29, 1904)
  • La Libre Esthétique (Brussels), February 25 to March 29, 1904
(?) Ausstellung VIII. Jahrgang (1905)
  • Galerie Paul Cassirer (Berlin), 1905
Monet (October 9, 1982 to January 30, 1983)
  • National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo), October 9 to November 28, 1982
  • National Museum of Modern Art (Kyoto), December 8, 1982 to January 30, 1983
Bibliography
Bibliography

Hôtel Drouot, Paris. Catalogue des tableaux et aquarelles par Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, A. Renoir, A. Sisley (March 24, 1875), p. 8, lot 8.

Dayot, Armand. "À travers les collections parisiennes." L'art dans les deux mondes, no. 23 (April 25, 1891), p. 272.

Exposition des peintres impressionnistes, exh. cat. (Brussels: La Libre Esthétique, 1904), p. 39, no. 92.

Alexandre, Arsène. La collection Henri Rouart (Paris: Goupil & cie., with Manzi, Joyant & cie., 1912), p. 104.

Dalligny, Aug. "Collection Henri Rouart." Le journal des arts 34, no. 81 (November 30, 1912), p. 1.

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Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris. Catalogue des tableaux [...] composant la collection de feu M. Henri Rouart [...]. December 9-11, 1912, p. 133, lot 252.

"Revue des ventes. Collection Henri Rouart." Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot 21, no. 132 (December 10, 1912), unpaginated, no. 252.

Maus, Madeleine Octave. Trente années de lutte pour l'art (Brussels: Librairie l'oiseau bleu, 1926), p. 323.

Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. 3rd ed. (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961), pp. 316, 339n20, ill.

Bodelsen, Merete. "Early Impressionist Sales, 1874-94, in the Light of Some Unpublished 'Procès Verbaux.'" Burlington Magazine 110, no. 783 (June 1968), pp. 335, 339.

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Isaacson, Joel. Claude Monet: Observation and Reflection (Oxford: Phaidon, 1978), p. 204, under no. 39.

Daulte, François, et al., eds. Monet, exh. cat. (Tokyo: National Museum of Western Art, 1982), unpaginated, no. 8, ill., entry by François Daulte.

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Prepositions and Monet

Lesson in which students examine two paintings by Claude Monet and write poetry using prepositional phrases.

Visual Arts; English–Language Arts

6-8

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