CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926) Homme au chapeau haut de forme et lunettes pencil and chalk on paper 17 1/16 x 15 in (43.3 x 38.1 cm) Executed circa 1857 Fußnoten This work will be included in the forthcoming Monet Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc. Provenance Michel Monet, Giverny (by descent from the artist). Henriette Giordanengo, Giverny (acquired as a gift from the above). Michel Cornebois, Giverny (acquired as a gift from the above, and sold: Besch Cannes Auction, Cannes, August 15, 2018, lot 209). Private collection, California (acquired at the above sale). Homme au chapeau haut de forme et lunettes likely is related to Monet's work as a caricaturist that at the age of fifteen earned him local recognition and began his official artistic career. "At fifteen I was known all over Le Havre as a caricaturist. My reputation was so well established that from all sides people came to me and pestered me for caricatures. I had so many requests, and the pocket money my mother could spare me was so meager, that I was led to take a bold step, one which needless to say shocked my parents: I started selling my portraits. Sizing up my customer, I charged ten or twenty francs a caricature, and it worked like a charm. Within a month my clientele had doubled," (C. Monet quoted in M. Tsaneva, Claude Monet 183 Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, Morrisville, 2013, pp. 3-4). One individual to take notice of Monet's burgeoning talent was Eugène Boudin who moved to Le Havre in 1850 with a three-year scholarship to pursue his artistic calling. After seeing Monet's caricatures Boudin made inquiries about him in the local shops and with the assistance of a frame-maker sought out an introduction between the artist and the young Monet. Monet, however, was uninterested and went out of his way to avoid Boudin, until a chance encounter. It was during this meeting that Boudin began to urge Monet to expand beyond his caricatures and join Boudin painting landscapes en plein air. Monet later reflected, "As for the man himself, I couldn't help liking him...But I couldn't stomach his painting, and whenever he offered to take me out sketching with him in the open country, I always had some pretext or other for a polite refusal. Summer came, my time was more or less my own, I could hardly put him off any longer. So to get it over with I gave in and Boudin, with unfailing kindness, took me in hand. In the end my eyes were opened and I gained a real understanding of nature and a real love for her as well," (ibid., p. 5).
CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926) Homme au chapeau haut de forme et lunettes pencil and chalk on paper 17 1/16 x 15 in (43.3 x 38.1 cm) Executed circa 1857 Fußnoten This work will be included in the forthcoming Monet Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc. Provenance Michel Monet, Giverny (by descent from the artist). Henriette Giordanengo, Giverny (acquired as a gift from the above). Michel Cornebois, Giverny (acquired as a gift from the above, and sold: Besch Cannes Auction, Cannes, August 15, 2018, lot 209). Private collection, California (acquired at the above sale). Homme au chapeau haut de forme et lunettes likely is related to Monet's work as a caricaturist that at the age of fifteen earned him local recognition and began his official artistic career. "At fifteen I was known all over Le Havre as a caricaturist. My reputation was so well established that from all sides people came to me and pestered me for caricatures. I had so many requests, and the pocket money my mother could spare me was so meager, that I was led to take a bold step, one which needless to say shocked my parents: I started selling my portraits. Sizing up my customer, I charged ten or twenty francs a caricature, and it worked like a charm. Within a month my clientele had doubled," (C. Monet quoted in M. Tsaneva, Claude Monet 183 Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, Morrisville, 2013, pp. 3-4). One individual to take notice of Monet's burgeoning talent was Eugène Boudin who moved to Le Havre in 1850 with a three-year scholarship to pursue his artistic calling. After seeing Monet's caricatures Boudin made inquiries about him in the local shops and with the assistance of a frame-maker sought out an introduction between the artist and the young Monet. Monet, however, was uninterested and went out of his way to avoid Boudin, until a chance encounter. It was during this meeting that Boudin began to urge Monet to expand beyond his caricatures and join Boudin painting landscapes en plein air. Monet later reflected, "As for the man himself, I couldn't help liking him...But I couldn't stomach his painting, and whenever he offered to take me out sketching with him in the open country, I always had some pretext or other for a polite refusal. Summer came, my time was more or less my own, I could hardly put him off any longer. So to get it over with I gave in and Boudin, with unfailing kindness, took me in hand. In the end my eyes were opened and I gained a real understanding of nature and a real love for her as well," (ibid., p. 5).
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