Updated 14 May 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Haystacks
| Date | 1890-91 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | charcoal on paper |
| Size（cm） | 23.3 x 29.2 |
| Inscriptions | Signed lower left: Claude Monet |
| Standard ref. | Wildenstein D 444 |
| Category | Drawings |
| Collection Number | D.1966-0001 |
Between the end of the summer of 1890 and the spring of 1891, Monet painted 25 views of haystacks. What Monet was pursuing in the Haystack Series was how to capture the "entourage" of the motif, i.e. the effect of the light diffused around the motif. In this drawing, the entourage of the haystacks projecting dark shadows against the light is contoured in dots. Similar dotted lines are also visible around the trees in the mid-ground. This study shows the artist's acute interest in the effect of the light incessantly flowing around the motif. (Source: The Digital Gallery. 1999-2006)
Provenance
L'Art dans les deux mondes; Durand-Ruel, 1891; Moritatsu Hosokawa, Japan, 1926; deposited in NMWA, 14 July 1960, Dep. 60-16 (D-34); purchased by NMWA, March 1967.
Exhibition History
- 1906
- Œuvre de Cl. Monet: 1894-1905, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 0 March 1906 - 0 0
- 1908
- Salon jubilaire, La Libre Esthétique, Bruxelles, 1 March 1908 - 5 April 1908, no. 139
- 1909
- Salon du Dessin, Liège, Belgique, 0 November 1909 - 0 December 1909
- 1997
- Expressiveness of Materials, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 17 April 1997 - 22 June 1997, cat. no. 29
- 2001
- French Masterpiece Drawings from The National Museum of Western Art Collection, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 27 March 2001 - 24 June 2001
- 2007
- The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 17 March 2007 - 10 June 2007, cat. no. 203, col. repr.
- 2013
- Monet, An Eye for Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings, Pola Museum of Art, 13 July 2013 - 24 November 2013, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 7 December 2013-9 March 2014, cat. no. 31, col. repr.
Bibliography
- 1891
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- 1906
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- 1924
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- 1928
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- 1932
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- 1948
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- 1963
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- 1968
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- 1969
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- 1969
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- 1970
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- 1970
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- 1970
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- 1971
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- 1992
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- 1997
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- 2007
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- 2013
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