Poppies, 1895

Provenance

Private collection, Connecticut

Sale, Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut, June 26, 2025, lot 68079

Related Works

Quai aux Fleurs, Paris, about 1911, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches; The Toledo Museum of Art,

Toledo, Ohio, Gift of the Tile Club, Toledo, 1911.25

Claude Monet, Field of Poppies, Giverny, 1885, oil on canvas, 23 5/8 x 28 ¾ inches, signed lower left: Claude Monet 85; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia

Willard Leroy Metcalf, Poppy Field (Landscape at Giverny), 1886, oil on canvas, 10⅝ 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

This painting features the poppy fields and the home of Claude Monet in Giverny, France.

Note

Prominent art critic of the late 19^th century, Charles Caffin, wrote that rather rendering a scene with ‘microscopic fidelity,’ Van Gorder “took in the figure, or scene as a whole with a swift, comprehensive glance, then rendered the impression he had received. Following his examples the moderns began to paint impressions, to be, as the phrase was coined, impressionists.[1]

[1] Questroyal and Cooley Gallery, The Lost Works of Luther Emerson van Gorder (1857-193) in Charles Caffin, The Story of American Painting, (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907), 238.