{"data":{"id":87088,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/87088","is_boosted":false,"title":"Water Lily Pond","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBgAFAPQAAElAOElAOktFPExMOkhHQktKQU5LQlNOQVFKRE9SSVRTR15bS19dT1daUFVgWl1gWWBhT2VoT2diUmplU3JqWXhyXWFpYGNuZmZzb211aHR3Z3FxaXl4bGl5cgAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAGAAUAAAUYIBIcCyNBhlAQCaBMVBUNjcZtmYN11nOFADs=","width":5448,"height":4845,"alt_text":"Painting of a small pond dense with pink water lilies, their roots visible through the water, a railed footbridge arching over the pond and lush, dark green folliage surrounding it."},"main_reference_number":"1933.441","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1900,"date_end":1900,"date_display":"1900","date_qualifier_title":"Made","date_qualifier_id":4,"artist_display":"Claude Monet (French, 1840\u20131926)","place_of_origin":"France","description":"<p>In 1893, three years after buying property at Giverny, Claude Monet began transforming the marshy ground behind his home into a pond, on the narrow end of which he built a Japanese-style wood bridge. Adding both exotic and domestic plantings, including his famous water lilies, the artist created the garden that would be one of his principal subjects for the rest of his life. <em>Water Lily Pond<\/em> was among the 18 similar versions of the motif that he made in 1899\u20131900; their common theme was the mingling of the lilies with reflections of other vegetation on the pool\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n","short_description":"In 1893, Claude Monet began transforming the marshy ground behind his Giverny home into a pond, on the narrow end of which he built a Japanese-style wood bridge. Adding both exotic and domestic plantings, including his famous water lilies, the artist created the garden that would be one of his principal subjects for the rest of his life.","dimensions":"89.8 \u00d7 101 cm (35 3\/8 \u00d7 39 3\/4 in.); Framed: 112.4 \u00d7 122.6 \u00d7 10.2 cm (44 1\/4 \u00d7 48 1\/4 \u00d7 4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":101,"height":89,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":10,"width":122,"height":112,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Inscribed upper left: Claude Monet \/ 1900","credit_line":"Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection","catalogue_display":"<p>Wildenstein 1628<\/p>","publication_history":"Lucien Descaves, \u201cChez Claude Monet,\u201d Paris-Magazine, Aug. 25, 1920, p. 354 (ill.). \n\nGustave Geffroy, \u201cClaude Monet,\u201d L\u2019art et les artistes 2, 11 (Nov. 1920), p. 73 (ill.).\n\nCamille Mauclair, Claude Monet (Rieder, 1924), pp. 63; pl. 39. Republished in Camille Mauclair, Claude Monet, 2nd ed. (Rieder, 1927), p. 63; pl. 39. Translated by J. Lewis May as Claude Monet (Dodd, Mead, 1924), pp. 6; pl. 39.\n\nFlorent Fels, Claude Monet: Trente reproductions de peintures et dessins pr\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9es d\u2019une \u00e9tude critique, Les peintres fran\u00e7ais nouveaux 22 (Gallimard, 1925), p. 63 (ill.).\n\n\u201cLes toiles de jeunesse de Claude Monet,\u201d L\u2019art vivant, Jan. 1, 1927, p. 22 (ill.)\n\nL\u00e9on Werth, Claude Monet (G. Cr\u00e8s, 1928), pl. 50.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 20, cat. 25.\n\nDaniel Catton Rich, \u201cThe Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection,\u201d in Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 7.\n\nJohn Rewald, \u201cMonet, Solid Builder of Impressions,\u201d Art News 42, 10 (Oct. 1\u201314, 1943), p. 25 (ill.).\n\nSaginaw Museum, Exhibition of Nineteenth Century French Painting, exh. cat. (Saginaw Museum, 1949), p. 9, cat. 19.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, \u201cCatalogue,\u201d Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51, 2 (Apr. 1, 1957), p. 33.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 320.\n\nA. James Speyer, \u201cTwentieth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture,\u201d Apollo 84, 55 (Sept. 1966), p. 222.\n\nFrederick A. Sweet, \u201cGreat Chicago Collectors,\u201d Apollo 84 (Sept. 1966), pp. 201, fig. 29; 203.\n\nDenis Rouart and Jean-Dominique Rey, Monet, nymph\u00e9as, ou Les miroirs du temps, with a cat. rais. by Robert Maillard (Hazan, 1972), p. 155 (ill.). Translated by David Radzinowicz as Monet, Water Lilies: The Complete Series, rev. ed., with a cat. rais. by Julie Rouart with Camille Sourisse (Flammarion\/Rizzoli, 2008), p. 121 (ill.).\n\nJohn Maxon, \u201cMonet Exhibition,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 69, 2 (Mar.\u2013Apr. 1975), p. 2 (ill.).\n\nGrace Seiberling, \u201cThe Evolution of an Impressionist,\u201d in Paintings by Monet, ed. Susan Wise, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p. 37.\n\nSusan Wise, ed., Paintings by Monet, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p. 158, cat. 101 (ill.).\n\nMetropolitan Museum of Art, Monet\u2019s Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1978), pp. 84, cat. 33 (ill.); 161.\n\nKirk Varnedoe, \u201cIn Monet\u2019s Gardens,\u201d New York Times Magazine, Apr. 2, 1978, p. 32 (ill.).\n\nA. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 58, cat. 3A8; microfiche 3, no. A8 (ill.).\n\nGrace Seiberling, Monet\u2019s Series (Garland, 1981), pp. 219; 230; 276; 438, fig. 30.\n\nRobert Gordon and Andrew Forge, Monet (Abrams, 1983), pp. 262, 268\u201369 (ill.), 294.\n\nAndrea P. A. Belloli, ed., A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, exh. cat. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984), p. 365.\n\nRichard R. Brettell, \u201cThe Fields of France,\u201d in A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, ed. Andrea P. A. Belloli, exh. cat. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984), p. 246.\n\nSylvie Gache-Patin, \u201cPrivate and Public Gardens,\u201d in A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, ed. Andrea P. A. Belloli, exh. cat. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984), pp. 211; 215; 224; 230; 236; 239, no. 93 (ill.).\n\nScott Schaefer, \u201cRivers, Roads, and Trains,\u201d in A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, ed. Andrea P. A. Belloli, exh. cat. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984),  p. 154.\n\nScott Schaefer, \u201cThe Retreat from Paris,\u201d in A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, ed. Andrea P. A. Belloli, exh. cat. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984), p. 304.\n\nRichard R. Brettell, \u201cLa campagne fran\u00e7aise,\u201d in R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, L\u2019impressionnisme et le paysage fran\u00e7ais, exh. cat. (R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, 1985), p. 261.\n\nAndrew Forge, Monet, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago, 1995), pp. 61; 64; 95, pl. 24; 109.\n\nSylvie Gache-Patin, \u201cJardins priv\u00e9s et jardins publics,\u201d in R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, L\u2019impressionnisme et le paysage fran\u00e7ais, exh. cat. (R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, 1985), pp. 217; 220; 252\u2013253, no. 93 (ill.).\n\nJohn House, \u201cCatalogue of the Exhibition,\u201d in Auckland City Art Gallery, Claude Monet: Painter of Light, exh. cat. (Auckland City Art Gallery\/NZI, 1985), pp. 94\u201395, cat. 27 (ill.); 106.\n\nJohn House, \u201cMonet and the Genesis of His Series,\u201d in Auckland City Art Gallery, Claude Monet: Painter of Light, exh. cat. (Auckland City Art Gallery\/NZI, 1985), p. 25.\n\nScott Schaefer, \u201cL\u2019\u00e9vasion loin de Paris,\u201d in R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, L\u2019impressionnisme et le paysage fran\u00e7ais, exh. cat. (R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, 1985), p. 327.\n\nScott Schaefer, \u201cRivi\u00e8res, routes et chemins de fer,\u201d in R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, L\u2019impressionnisme et le paysage fran\u00e7ais, exh. cat. (R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, 1985), p. 156.\n\nVirginia Spate, \u201cTranscending the Moment\u2014Monet\u2019s Water Lilies, 1899\u20131926,\u201d in Auckland City Art Gallery, Claude Monet: Painter of Light, exh. cat. (Auckland City Art Gallery\/NZI, 1985), pp. 30, 31.\n\nCharles F. Stuckey, ed., Monet: A Retrospective (Hugh Lauter Levin, 1985), p. 237, pl. 93.\n\nDaniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonn\u00e9, vol. 4, Peintures, 1899\u20131926  (Biblioth\u00e8que des Arts, 1985), pp. 21; 194; 195, cat. 1628 (ill.); 349, letters 1580, 1581; 427, pi\u00e8ces justificatives151, 152; 431, pi\u00e8ces justificatives 271, 273; 432, pi\u00e8ce justificative 316.\n\nJames G. Ravin, \u201cMonet\u2019s Cataracts,\u201d JAMA: Journal of American Medical Association 254, 3 (July 19, 1985), pp. 394; 395, fig. 2. \n\nKunstmuseum Basel, Claude Monet, Nymph\u00e9as: Impression, Vision, exh. cat. (SV International, 1986), pp. 29; 33, cat. 10 (ill.); 172.\n\nMuseo Espa\u00f1ol de Arte Contempor\u00e1neo, Claude Monet, 1840\u20131926, exh. cat. (Ministerio de Cultura, in collaboration with Fundaci\u00f3n para el Apoyo de la Cultura, 1986), pp. 380\u201381, cat. 94 (ill.); 499.\n\nDaniel Wildenstein, \u201cGiverny, o La conquista de lo absolute,\u201d in Museo Espa\u00f1ol de Arte Contempor\u00e1neo, Claude Monet, 1840\u20131926, exh. cat. (Ministerio de Cultura, in collaboration with Fundaci\u00f3n para el Apoyo de la Cultura, 1986), p. 68, cat. 94 (ill.).\n\nRichard R. Brettell, Post-Impressionists (Art Institute of Chicago\/Abrams, 1987), pp. 111, 114 (ill.), 118.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood and Katharine C. Lee (Art Institute of Chicago\/New York Graphic Society Books\/Little, Brown, 1988), p. 72 (ill.).\n\nCharles F. Stuckey, Monet: Water Lilies (Hugh Lauter Levin\/Macmillan, 1988), p. 33, pl. 6.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood and Katharine C. Lee (Art Institute of Chicago\/New York Graphic Society Books\/Little, Brown, 1988), p. 72 (ill.).\n\nPaul Hayes Tucker, Monet in the \u201890s: The Series Paintings, exh. cat. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston\/Yale University Press, 1989), pp. 260; 263, pl. 98; 265; 300, cat. 91.\n\nPhilip Sandblom, Creativity and Disease: How Illness Affects Literature, Art and Music, rev. ed. (Marion Boyars, 1995), pp. 131, pl. 52; 203.\n\nCharles F. Stuckey, with the assistance of Sophia Shaw, Claude Monet, 1840\u20131926, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago\/Thames & Hudson, 1995), pp. 135, cat. 114 (ill.); 234; 246.\n\nPaul Hayes Tucker, Claude Monet: Life and Art (Yale University Press, 1995), pp. 184; 186, pl. 212.\n\nGenevieve Morgan, ed., Monet: The Artist Speaks (Collins, 1996), pp. 85 (ill.), 95.\n\nDaniel Wildenstein, Monet, or The Triumph of Impressionism, cat. rais., vol. 1 (Taschen\/Wildenstein Institute, 1996), p. 353.\n\nDaniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonn\u00e9\/Werkverzeichnis, vol. 4, Nos. 1596\u20131983 et les grandes d\u00e9corations (Taschen\/Wildenstein Institute, 1996), pp. 728\u201329, cat. 1628 (ill.).\n\nJames G. Ravin, \u201cArtistic Vision in Old Age: Claude Monet,\u201d in Michael F. Marmor and James G. Ravin, The Eye of an Artist (Mosby, 1997), p. 169, fig. 14.1.\n\nGeorge T. M. Shackelford and MaryAnne Stevens, \u201cThe Garden at Giverny, 1900\u20131902,\u201d in Paul Hayes Tucker with George T. M. Shackelford and MaryAnne Stevens, Monet in the 20th Century, exh. cat. (Royal Academy of Arts, London\/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston\/Yale University Press, 1998), pp. 118; 120, cat. 1 (ill.).\n\nPaul Hayes Tucker, \u201cThe Revolution in the Garden: Monet in the Twentieth Century,\u201d in Paul Hayes Tucker, with George T. M. Shackelford and MaryAnne Stevens, Monet in the 20th Century, exh. cat. (Royal Academy of Arts, London; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston\/Yale University Press, 1998), p. 32.\n\nChristopher Yetton, Monet in the 20th Century: An Introduction, exh. cat. (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1999), pp. 30, cat. 1 (ill.); 31 (detail).\n\n\u201cMonet, les nymph\u00e9as: L\u2019exposition,\u201d special issue, Connaissance des arts 137 (1999), pp. 62\u201363, ill. 59.\n\nPierre Georgel, Claude Monet: Nymph\u00e9as (Hazan, 1999), pp. 8, 32 (ill.).\n\nPierre Georgel with Chantal Georgel and Jacqueline S\u00e9journ\u00e9, Monet: Le cycle des \u201cNymph\u00e9as,\u201d exh. cat. (R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, 1999), pp. 31; 81, cat. 6 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood (Art Institute of Chicago\/Hudson Hills, 2000), p. 159 (ill.).\n\nChristie\u2019s, London, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art, sale cat. (Christie\u2019s, June 18, 2000), p. 48, fig. 2.\n\nKarin Sagner-D\u00fcchting, \u201cMonet\u2019s Late Work from the Vantage Point of Modernism,\u201d in Monet and Modernism, ed. Karin Sagner-D\u00fcchting, exh. cat. (Prestel, 2001), p. 25.\n\nKarin Sagner-D\u00fcchting, \u201cThe Waterlilies in Giverny and the Grande D\u00e9coration,\u201d in Monet and Modernism, ed. Karin Sagner-D\u00fcchting, exh. cat. (Prestel, 2001), pp. 66, 73 (ill.).\n\nNorio Shimada and Keiko Sakagami, Kur\u014ddo Mone meigash\u016b: Hikari to kaze no kiseki [Claude Monet: 1881\u20131926], vol. 2 (Nihon Bijutsu Ky\u014diku Sent\u0101, 2001), p. 106, no. 234 (ill.); 190.\n\nDebra N. Mancoff, Monet: Nature into Art (Publications International, 2003), pp. 96\u201397 (ill.), 128.\n\nFran\u00e7oise Cachin, \u201cClaude Monet, Le pont japonais, sur le basin des nymph\u00e9as,\u201d in L\u2019impressionnisme, de France et d\u2019Am\u00e9rique: Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Degas . . . , ed. Fran\u00e7oise Cachin and Richard R. Brettell, exh. cat. (Artlys\/Mus\u00e9e Fabre\/Mus\u00e9e de Grenoble, 2007), p. 140.\n\nEric M. Zafran, \u201cMonet in America,\u201d in Wildenstein and Co., Claude Monet (1840\u20131926): A Tribute to Daniel Wildenstein and Katia Granoff, exh. cat. (Wildenstein, 2007), p. 127.\n\nGloria Groom and Douglas Druick, with the assistance of Dorota Chudzicka and Jill Shaw, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago\/Kimbell Art Museum, 2008), pp. 15 (ill.); 19 (ill.); 20 (ill.); 22; 161; 163; 167; 172 (detail); 173, cat. 90 (ill.). Simultaneously published as Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, with the assistance of Dorota Chudzicka and Jill Shaw, The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago\/Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 15 (ill.); 19 (ill.); 20 (ill.); 22; 161; 163; 167; 172 (detail); 173, cat. 90 (ill.). \n\nJon Kear, The Treasures of the Impressionists (Andre Deutsch, 2008), pp. 66 (ill.), 72.\n\nAlec Mishory, Still Life: From Represented Objects to Real Objects, vol. 1 (Open University of Israel, 2008), pp. 241, fig. 208; 292.\n\nMichael Sciarrillo and Scott Aker, \u201cDrawing as Insight into Wholeness,\u201d Journal for Geometry and Graphics 12, 1 (2008), pp. 87; 89; 91, fig. 1.\n\nMichel Draguet, Les Nymph\u00e9as: Monet; Grandeur; Nature (Hazan, 2010), p. 4, fig. 10.\n\nMary Mathews Gedo, Monet and His Muse: Camille Monet in the Artist\u2019s Life (University of Chicago Press, 2010), p. 221, fig. 15.1.\n\nMarianne Mathieu and Sophie Matthiesson, Monet\u2019s Garden, Mus\u00e9e Marmottan Monet, Paris, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Victoria, 2013), pp. 126 (ill.), 173.\n\n\u201cCat. 37: Water Lily Pond, 1900,\u201d in Monet Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Gloria Groom and Jill Shaw (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014), <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.artic.edu\/monet\/reader\/paintingsanddrawings\/section\/135470\">https:\/\/publications.artic.edu\/monet\/reader\/paintingsanddrawings\/section\/135470<\/a>. \n\nGeorge T.M. Shackelford, Monet: The Late Years, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), 165, 169 fig. 171.\n\nGloria Groom, et. al. Monet and Chicago, exh. Cat. (Chicago: Art Institute, 2020), 29 fig. 8, 32 fig. 11, 120 cat. 75, 141.\n\nRejoicing in Woods and Springs: A Journey through Garden Cultures in China and the Wider World, exh. cat. (Beijing: Gu gong chu ban she, 2025), 274 (ill.), cat. 170.","exhibition_history":"New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Paintings by Claude Monet, Feb. 1\u201316, 1915, cat. 8. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, Apr. 6\u2013Oct. 9, 1932, cat. 25.\n\nDayton (Ohio) Art Museum, 19th Century French Paintings from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago (circuit exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts), June 1\u2013June 22, 1948, no cat.; Springfield (Mo.) Art Museum, Sept. 9\u201330, 1948, no cat.; Probably Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Vassar College Art Gallery, Oct. 15\u2013Nov. 5, 1948; Probably Manchester, N.H., Currier Gallery of Art, Nov. 16\u2013Dec. 7, 1948; Saginaw (Mich.) Museum (as Exhibition of Nineteenth Century French Painting), Dec. 19, 1948\u2013Jan. 9, 1949, cat. 19; Probably Omaha, Neb., Joslyn Memorial Art Museum, Jan. 23\u2013Feb. 15, 1949; Probably Memphis, Tenn., Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Mar. 1\u201322, 1949, no cat.; Utica, N.Y., Munson\u2013Williams-Proctor Institute, Apr. 3\u201324, 1949, no cat. \n\nChicago, Remington Rand, window display, Apr. 14\u201330, 1952, no cat. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1\u2013June 15, 1957, no cat. no. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15\u2013May 11, 1975, cat. 101 (ill.).  \n\nNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Monet\u2019s Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism, Apr. 19\u2013July 9, 1978, cat. 33 (ill.); Saint Louis Art Museum, Aug. 1\u2013Oct. 8, 1978.\n\nLos Angeles County Museum of Art, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28\u2013Sept. 16, 1984, cat. 93 (ill.); Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 23, 1984\u2013Jan. 6, 1985; Paris, Galeries Nationales d\u2019Exposition du Grand Palais, as L\u2019impressionnisme et le paysage fran\u00e7ais, Feb. 4\u2013Apr. 22, 1985.\n\nAuckland City Art Gallery, Claude Monet: Painter of Light, Apr. 29\u2013June 9, 1985, cat. 27 (ill.); Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, June 21\u2013Aug. 4, 1985; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Aug. 14\u2013Sept. 29, 1985.\n\nMadrid, Museo Espa\u00f1ol de Arte Contempor\u00e1neo, Claude Monet, 1840\u20131926, Apr. 29\u2013June 30, 1986, cat. 94 (ill.).\n\nBasel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Claude Monet: Nymph\u00e9as, July 20\u2013Oct. 19, 1986, cat. 10 (ill.).\n\nBoston, Museum of Fine Arts, Monet in the \u201990s: The Series Paintings, February 7\u2013April 29, 1990, cat. 91 (ill.); Art Institute of Chicago, May 19\u2013August 12, 1990; London, Royal Academy of Arts, September 7\u2013December 9, 1990.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet, 1840\u20131926, July 22\u2013Nov. 26, 1995, cat. 114 (ill.). \n\nBoston, Museum of Fine Arts, Monet in the 20th Century, Sept. 20\u2013Dec. 27, 1998, cat. 1 (ill.); London, Royal Academy of Arts, Jan. 23\u2013Apr. 18, 1999; Kunsthaus Zurich, May 6-August 8, 1999.\n\nParis, Mus\u00e9e National de l\u2019Orangerie, Monet: Le cycle des \u201cNymph\u00e9as,\u201d May 6\u2013Aug. 2, 1999, cat. 6 (ill.).\n\nFort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29\u2013Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 90 (ill.).\n\nMelbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Monet\u2019s Garden: The Mus\u00e9e Marmottan Monet, Paris, May 10\u2013Sept. 8, 2013, no cat. no. (ill.).\n\nBirmingham, United Kingdom, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, June 24, 2017 - September 10, 2017.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021, cat. 75.\n\nBeijing, Palace Museum, Garden Cultures of China and the West, Apr. 1\u2013June 30, 2025; Suzhou Museum, July 19\u2013Oct. 31, 2025; Ningbo Museum, Dec. 5, 2025\u2013Mar. 8, 2026; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Apr. 23\u2013July 29, 2026.\n\nBeijing, Palace Museum, Rejoicing in Woods and Springs: A Journey through Garden Cultures in China and the Wider World, Apr. 1\u2013June 30, 2025, cat. 170; Suzhou China, Suzhou Museum, July 19\u2013Oct. 31, 2025; Ningbo, China, Ningbo Museum, Dec. 5, 2025\u2013Mar. 8, 2026; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Apr. 23\u2013July 29, 2026.","provenance_text":"The artist (d. 1026); sold to L\u00e9once Rosenberg, Paris, Dec. 1900 [this and the following per Wildenstein 1996]. Prince de Wagram, 1904. L\u00e9once Rosenberg, Paris, by July 22, 1914 [this and the two following per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1913\u201321 (no. 10710, as Le bassin aux nymph\u00e9as, 1900), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 21, 2013, curatorial object file]; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, July 22, 1914, for 21,000 francs; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, Dec. 3 or 30, 1914; sold to Arthur Meeker, Chicago, Apr. 8, 1915, for $7,400 [per Durand-Ruel, New York, stock book for 1904\u201324 (no. 3807, as Le bassin aux nymph\u00e9as, 1900), as confirmed by the Durand-Ruel Archives in the correspondence cited above, curatorial object file. Wildenstein 1996 states that the painting was acquired again by Durand-Ruel around 1923, referencing a letter from Durand-Ruel to A. Meeker, dated Nov. 24, 1923; however, in the 2013 correspondence cited above, the Durand-Ruel Archives explained, \u201cWe have not found such information in our archives.\u201d]. 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