MONET CLAUDE: (1840-1926) French Impressionist painter. A good A.L.S., Claude Monet ...

MONET CLAUDE: (1840-1926) French Impressionist painter. A good A.L.S., Claude Monet, two pages (written to the first and third sides of the bifoilium), 8vo, Giverney par Vernon, Eure, 5th September 1924, to [Félix] Fénéon, in French. Monet writes to furnish his correspondent with some information regarding his paintings and photographs, in full, ´Voila les renseignements que je puis vous donner le croquis. La Cotelette, si je ne me trompe est de ma toute jeunesse. 55 ou 56. L´autre croquis (marine) est fait à Pourville en 83. Quand aux photos l´une est fait a Argenteuil vers 73 ou 74 et l´autre la seine a Vetheuil, hiver de 79´ (Translation: ´Here is the information I can give you about the sketch. La Cotelette, if I'm not mistaken, is from my youth. 55 or 56. The other sketch (seascape) was done in Pourville in 83. As for the photos, one was taken in Argenteuil around 73 or 74 and the other on the Seine in Vetheuil in the winter of 79´). A couple of very small, minor neat tears to the right edges of the central horizontal fold, and some extremely light age wear, VG

Félix Fénéron (1861-1944) French art critic, gallery owner, writer, and anarchist who coined the term Neo-Impressionism.

Monet´s La Cotelette (´The Cutlet´) is listed in Daniel Wildenstein´s Catalogue raisonné of Monet´s works as having been painted by the artist in November 1862 upon his arrival in Paris. The artist made numerous paintings of the cliffs, beach and sea at Pourville in 1882, and had earlier lived at Argenteuil with his family from 1871. The family moved to the village of Vetheuil in the autumn of 1878 where they shared a house with the family of Ernest Hoschedé, a patron of the arts who had commissioned four paintings from Monet.