Willard Leroy Metcalf (1858–1925)

Poppy Field (Landscape at Giverny), 1886

  • Oil on canvas
  • 10 5/8 x 18 5/16 inches
  • Signed and dated lower left: W.L. METCALF. 86; on verso: La maison de / Claude Monet à / Giverny. / Looking across / from the end of my garden / W.L. Metcalf

Provenance

  • Private collection, Sandwich, Massachusetts
  • Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York, New York
  • Private collection, Massachusetts
  • Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York, New York
  • Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, acquired from above, 2012
  • Private collection, Allentown, Pennsylvania, acquired from above, 2012
  • Private collection, Connecticut
  • Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, acquired from above, 2019
  • Collection of J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox, acquired from above 

Exhibited

Americans in Paris 1860–1900, National Gallery, London, February 22–May 21, 2006; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, June 25–September 24, 2006; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, October 17, 2006–January 28, 2007

The World of Claude Monet, Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Japan, April 26–September 28, 2008

The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, February 12–May 24, 2015

American Impressionism: Echoes of a Revolution, San Antonio Museum of Art, June 12–September 6, 2020; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, January 23–April 11, 2021; [Brandywine River Museum of Art, October 17, 2020–January 10, 2021, cancelled due to flooding]

Literature

Kathleen Adler, Erica E. Hirshler, and H. Barbara Weinberg, Americans in Paris 1860–1900 (London: National Gallery, 2006), 140, 141, no. 72, 249, no. 72.

Note

According to the exhibition catalogue for Americans in Paris 1860–1900, this painting features a view of Claude Monet’s house in Giverny.

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