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Impression, Sunrise
Claude Monet
The painting that gave Impressionism its name, and the subject of one of the most notorious art thefts of the 1980s.
- Artist
- Claude Monet
- Date
- 1872
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 48 × 63 cm
- Location
- Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
History
What the record shows
Shown at the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874, where a hostile critic borrowed its title for the whole movement.
Stolen from the Marmottan at gunpoint in 1985 and recovered in Corsica five years later; security conditions now govern every loan.
Provenance
Chain of ownership
- 01Sold to Ernest Hoschedé, 1874
- 02Georges de Bellio collection, Paris
- 03Bequest of Victorine Donop de Monchy to the Marmottan, 1940
- 04Stolen 1985; recovered 1990
