15/11/24 – Acquisition – Paris, Marmottan Monet Museum – It was presented publicly for the first time at the Luxembourg Museum last year, the flagship work of the Léon Monet monographic exhibition (see the article). Then on loan from a private collection, the portrait of his brother Léon painted by Claude Monet in 1874 now joins the Marmottan Monet Museum, offered by Max Cauvin and his daughter Pascale in memory of their wife and mother Françoise Cauvin, grand-daughter daughter of Léon Monet who died in 2017. A donation suggested by the last lines of the exhibition catalogue, mentioning Françoise Cauvin's determination to make the story of Léon and Claude Monet, his grandfather and his great-uncle, notably through the entry of this emblematic portrait into French public collections. With this new enrichment, the Marmottan Museum perpetuates the tradition of donations and bequests to which it owes its reference collection of works by Claude Monet.
- Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Portrait of Léon Monet1874
Oil on canvas – 63 x 52 cm
Paris, Marmottan Museum
Photo: Marmottan Monet Museum
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The only representation of his brother Léon by Claude Monet, this Portrait is one of the sixty works that made up the collection of Léon Monet, an early impressionist collector. A collection of which the exhibition catalog of the Musée du Luxembourg provides a precise directory established for the occasion. Forty-six works are identified and benefit from detailed notices. Around twenty of them were able to be presented, a challenge given their dispersion. Painted in 1874, this Portrait dates from a decisive year in the careers of the two brothers. Claude Monet then presented the painting Print, rising sun at the first exhibition of the Impressionists, Impressionist icon and jewel of the collections of the Marmottan Monet Museum since the Donop de Monchy donation. Let us point out that the…
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