Caricature of Mario Uchard

c. 1858

Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
after Etienne Carjat (French, 1828–1906)

On View: Prints and Drawings, Regenstein Hall

Artist: Claude Monet
Title: Caricature of Mario Uchard
Origin: France
Date: 1857–1860
Medium: Graphite on tan wove paper
Inscriptions: Not signed
Dimensions: 320 × 245 mm
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection
Reference Number: 1933.891

Hugh Edwards, “The Caricatures of Claude Monet,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 37, 1 (Jan. 1943), p. 71.
John Rewald, The History of Impressionism (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1946), p. 35 (ill.).
Raymond Cogniat, Claude Monet (Flammarion, 1956), pl. 3.
Katharine Kuh and W. van der Rohe, “Homage to Claude Monet,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51, 2 (Apr. 1, 1957), p. 27.
William C. Seitz, Claude Monet (Abrams, 1960), pp. 13; 50, fig 64.
Yvon Taillandier, Monet (Flammarion, 1963), p. 7 (ill.).
Charles Merrill Mount, Monet, a Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1966), pp. 33, 396.
Phoebe Pool, Impressionism (Praeger, 1969), p. 64, fig. 44.
Maria and Godfrey Blunden, Impressionists and Impressionism, trans. James Emmons (Skira, 1970), p. 38 (ill.).
Hideji Takashima, Manet, Monet, Seurat (Holp Shuppan, 1970), chap. 1 (ill.).
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet (Fratelli Fabbri, 1971), p. 90, no. 37 (ill.).
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. 1 (Bibliothèque des Arts, 1974), p. 5.
John Rewald, History of Impressionism (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1973), p. 39 (ill.).
Toshiaki Minemura, Monet (Shinchsha, 1974), p. 86 (ill.).
Rodolphe Walter, “Claude Monet as a Caricaturist: A Clandestine Apprenticeship,” trans. Eric Young, Apollo 103 (June 1976), pp. 489; 492.
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), pp. 70–71, no. 4B3.
William C. Seitz, Monet: 25 Masterworks (Abrams, 1982), p. 10 (ill.).
Douglas Skeggs, River of Light: Monet’s Impressions of the Seine (Gollancz, 1987), pp. 15 (ill.); 150
Denis Rouart, Monet (Nathan, 1990), p. 16 (ill.).
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 5, Supplément aux peintures: Dessins; Pastels; Index (Wildenstein Institute, 1991), p. 147, cat. D499 (ill.).
Jacques-Sylvain Klein, La Normandie: Berceau de l’impressionisme 1820–1900 (Ouest-France, 1996), p. 66.
Carla Rachman, Monet (Phaidon, 1997), p. 18 (ill. in reverse).
Birgit Zeidler, Claude Monet: Life and Work (Könemann, 2000), p. 10 (ill. in reverse).

City Art Museum of St. Louis, “Claude Monet: A Loan Exhibition,” Sept. 25–Oct. 22, 1957, p. 17, cat. 96 (ill.); Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Nov. 1–Dec. 1, 1957.
Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, “The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings,” June 24–Sept. 16, 2007, pp. 38–39, fig. 29; 300; London, Royal Academy, Mar. 17–June 10, 2007.

Possibly Alfred Dussueil (1878–1927), Paris [Wildenstein 1991 and Durand-Ruel Archives]. Sold by Henri Cottereau, Paris, to Carter H. Harrison (1860–1953), Chicago, winter 1927–28 [Carter H. Harrison, “A brief statement of where and how I acquired the various items in the collection of drawings I have given to the Art Institute… . ,” Oct. 18, 1934]; given by Carter H. Harrison to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

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