Acquired recently by a friend to the National Gallery of Canada, this exceptional painting will be on view with the largest public collection of the artist’s work in Canada
Le Pont de bois (1872), an important early painting by the leading Impressionist painter and one of modern art’s most celebrated artists, is now on view at the National Gallery of Canada. The painting, generously lent by a friend to the Gallery, complements in a significant way the Gallery’s permanent holdings of works by Claude Monet (1840-1926), which comprise four paintings dating from around 1884 through 1903. It will also join another private collection work on loan, Rain, Pourville (1896), currently on view in the galleries.
Acquired recently, Le Pont de bois was previously in the collection of Gustav Rau, the celebrated collector and philanthropist. Prior to entering Dr. Rau’s collection, the painting had a storied provenance: its first owner was the painter Edouard Manet, it was briefly with the Galerie Durand-Ruel, and in the 1960s was purchased by the famed Californian collector Norton Simon.
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