BIB_ID
224292
Accession number
MA 3950.3:276
Creator
Monet, Claude, 1840-1926.
Display Date
Vétheuil, France, 1880 January 8.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 20.9 x 13.5 cm
Notes
Forms part of the Tabarant collection, papers related to the artist Édouard Manet.
Provenance
From the collection of Adolphe Tabarant (1863-1950); by descent to his daughter Lucienne Tabarant and sold by her to Mina Curtiss (1896-1985) in 1960; purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard in 1974.
Summary
Saying that a Monsieur Petit visited his studio and purchased a still life of fruit and two "effets de neige" from him; writing about the "débâcle de la Seine" (the break-up of the ice floes on the Seine) and his attempts to capture this phenomenon; adding that he thinks it will snow again and he will take advantage of it to finish the painting for Duret; mentioning a purchase of wine.
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