Un Jardin, Maison Baptiste, (painting)

Object Details

Notes

Burke, Doreen Bolger, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume III: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1846 and 1864," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, pg. 386.

Summary

A garden scene, probably the garden at the house in Giverny, France where the Theodore Butler lived after his marriage to Claude Monet's stepdaughter Suzanne in 1892. A rectangle of grass with a flower border fills the canvas. A single tree grows on the left side of the grassy section, and other small trees are visible on the far left.

Data Source

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

Date

1895

Control number

IAP 36121177

painter

Butler, Theodore Earl 1861-1936

Type

Paintings

Medium

Oil on canvas

Owner/Location

Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 1976.340.1

Topic

Landscape--Garden

Landscape--France--Giverny

Record ID

siris_ari_42935

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