1895
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Dominant colour
Sandvika, Norway is a 1895 oil by Claude Monet, a Impressionism work, depicting Snow, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
You see a small village with a iron bridge in the painting. It's a winter scene with snow covering the ground. The artist was inspired by the Japanese bridge he had at home, and this iron bridge reminded him of it, which is an interesting fact about this work. The village is quiet and peaceful, with no people around. The artist used simple colors to show the cold weather. You can learn more about the artist's style by looking at the work of Claude Monet.
Claude Monet’s trip to Norway in 1895 was perhaps the most physically taxing of all his many painting campaigns. Touring the country with his stepson Jacques Hoschedé, who lived in Christiania (now Oslo), he was awestruck but initially frustrated in his search for good motifs amid the snow. Nevertheless, he painted 29 Norwegian scenes during a two-month stay. These included at least six views of Sandvika, a village near Christiania whose iron bridge may have reminded Monet of the Japanese bridge at his home in Giverny.
The artist (d. 1926); donated to the Alfred Sisley Sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 1, 1899, lot 65 [per Galerie Georges Petit 1899]; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, for 6,300 francs [per Durand-Ruel,Paris, stock book for 1891–1901 (no. 5186, as Sandviken près Christiania), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 5, 2013, curatorial object file. According to Wildenstein 1996, the picture was sold on May 1, 1899, to Durand-Ruel and Bernheim-Jeune. There are two copies of this sales catalogue, annotated…
Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Exposition de tableaux de Claude Monet, May 10–31, 1895, cat. 29, as Village de Sandviken (Temps de neige) or cat. 30, as Village de Sandviken. Boston, Copley Society, Loan Collection of Paintings by Claude Monet and Eleven Sculptures by Auguste Rodin, Mar. 1905, cat. 90, as Village de Sandriken [sic], Pres [sic] Christiania, 1895, lent by Mrs. John Jay Borland. Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures of Chicago Collectors, Apr. 15–May 7, 1961, no cat. no. Høvikodden, Norway, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Impresjonismen 100 år, Nov. 1974–Jan. 1975, cat. 10 (ill.). Art…
Read the full account in the museum source.
Oscar-Claude Monet was born in Paris on November 14, 1840, and raised from the age of five in Le Havre, where he began selling charcoal caricatures as a teenager.
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