The Stroller (Suzanne Hoschedé, later Mrs. Theodore Earl Butler, 1868–1899)

The Stroller (Suzanne Hoschedé, later Mrs. Theodore Earl Butler, 1868–1899)

The Stroller (Suzanne Hoschedé, later Mrs. Theodore Earl Butler, 1868–1899)

Artist:Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny)
Date:1887
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:39 5/8 x 27 3/4 in. (100.6 x 70.5 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002

This painting of Suzanne Hoschedé in the meadows just south of Le Pressoir, Monet's home at Giverny, was probably made in the summer of 1887. She became Monet's preferred model in the period after the death of his first wife, Camille, in 1879, and before 1890, when he gave up plein-air figure painting. The model was the daughter of Alice Hoschedé, whom Monet married in 1892.

Provenance

the sitter, Giverny (1887–d. 1899; returned by her widower, Theodore Earl Butler, to the artist); Claude Monet, Giverny (1899–d. 1926); his step-daughter, also the late sitter's sister, Blanche Hoschedé-Monet, Giverny (1926–d. 1947); her nephew, Jean-Marie Toulgouat (1947–54; sold on May 7, 1954, through Sam Salz, New York, to Annenberg); Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, Rancho Mirage, Calif. (1954–his d. 2002)

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