Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-211, Portrait (app. à M. Choquet) =? CR176, 1875, Portrait of Victor Chocquet, 46×37, Harvard Cambridge (iRx;R30,no225;R90II,p44+63;R2,p164;R108,no176;M32). Compare: 2IE-1876-214, Tête d’Homme (app. à M. Choquet).
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-214, Tête d’Homme (app. à M. Choquet) =!? 1876, CR175, Victor Chocquet, 46×36, SOR Winterthur (R30,p45=no226;R90II,p44+63;R2,p164;R108,no175;M87)
Paul Cézanne: 3IE-1877-29, Tête d’homme, étude =1876-77, V283=FWN437, Ccl, Portrait of Victor Chocquet, 46×37, private NY (iR3;iR2;iR59;iR194,no437;R189,no283;R90II,p29;R2,p215;R48,no243;R163,p67)
Auguste Renoir: 1875, CR176?, Madame Victor Chocquet, 75×60, Sg Stuttgart (iR2;R30,no176;R90II,p44;R2,p164;R108,no176)
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-210, Sur la terrasse; Appartient à M. Choquet =1876, CR173, Portrait of Mme Chocquet by the window, 67×54, Pushkin (iR10;iR202;iR6;R90II,p43+62;R2,p164;R108,no173;R30,no223;M96)
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-213, Liseuse (app. à M. Choquet) = 1876, CR174, Madame Chocquet Reading, 66×55, private NY (iR2;iR22;iR52;R90II,p44+62;R2,p164;R108,no174;R30,no224)
Introduction: This page renders short information on Victor Chocquet and his wife; the loans to the ‘impressionist’ expositions, their art-collection and the posthumous auction sale of their collection.
The emphasize is on the works of the partakers of the ‘impressionist’ expositions.
Chocquet was a benefactor of the impressionist, namely of Paul Cézanne, Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet.
Victor Chocquet, his wife and his children were several times portrayed by Renoir and Cézanne. Note: Walther (R3,p654) and the catalogues of the ‘impressionist’ expositions, and the posthumous auction sale all wrongly write ‘Choquet’ instead of Chocquet.
Auguste Renoir: 1876ca, Portraits of Marie-Sophie Chocquet, 36×45, private (iRx;R30,no214;R2,p164) =?? 2IE-1876-216, Tête d’enfant (app. à M. Choquet)
Claude Monet: 3IE-1877-95, Les Tuileries, à M. Bellio =CR401, 1876, The Tuileries, 54×73, Marmottan (iR2;R22+R127,CR401;R2,p205;R90II,p93;M2,no.4016) Provenance: de Bellio (1876/06); Donop de Monchy (1894). Expos: DR1883-1; EU-1889-C-527; PR-1922-XIX-56. Info: view from the Chocquet appartement.
Victor Chocquet, short biography: Victor Chocquet retired in 1877 after years of service as a supervisor in the customs service.
Choquet lived at 198, Rue de Rivoli, Paris.
Monet painted 4 paintings of the Tuileries from the top the building where Chocquet lived (R22,CR401-4); the first 3 of them were exhibited at the 3rd ‘impressionist’ exposition in 1877 (no.95+119+105).
In 1877 Duranty wrote to Zola: ‘whose wife … will some day have an income of 50.000 francs’.
1882/04 his wife had inherited a fortune (R5,p129); Walther writes Victor did (R3,p654).
In 1890 they bought a big house in Rue Monsigny.
1891/04/07 Chocquet died.
In 1899 Mme Chocquet died.
1899/07/01+03+04 there was an auction of their inheritance↓.
Claude Monet, 3IE-1877-119, Le jardin des Tuilleries = CR402, 1876, The Tuileries garden, 60×80, private (R22+R127,CR402;R2,p205;R90II,p96)
Claude Monet: 3IE-1877-105 Tuileries, esquisse = CR403, 1875-76, The Tuileries (study), 50×74, Orsay (iR2;R22+R127,CR403;R2,p205;R90II,p95;M1,RF2705) Provenance: 1877/05 Caillebotte; 1896 Musée de Luxembourg
Victor Chocquet, benefactor of the impressionists: In 1875 during the auction at Hôtel Drouot he discovered Renoir and others.
There is discussion if he (and others) also were among the buyers, though they were present.
Shortly afterwards he started also to support Cézanne.
1876/02/04 he met Monet through Cézanne.
Claude Monet: 2IE-1876-158, Effet d’automne, appartient à M. Choquet =!? 1873, CR291, Autumn on the Seine at Argenteuil, 54×73, HMA Atlanta (M150,no.2000.205;R2,p162;R90II,p57;R22+R127,CR291) Provenance: Chocquet (1876/02/05)
Camille Pissarro: 2IE-1876-199, Gelée blanche avec brouillard; appartient à M. Choquet (sic) = CCP331, 1874, Brouillard (Fog), 54×65, private (iR10;iR94;R116,CCP331;R90II,p43+61;R2,p164) Chocquet collection
Victor Chocquet, lender to the ‘impressionist’ expositions: In 1876 Chocquet did loan 8 paintings to the 2nd ‘impressionist’ exposition of 1876:
6 of Renoir (no. 210, 211, 213, 214, 215, 216),
1 of Monet (no.158) and
1 of Pissarro (no. 199).
In 1877 Chocquet loaned most of the pictures that Cézanne exhibited, but this was not noted in the catalogue (R2,p204).
It is said that Chocquet daily attended the 3rd ‘impressionist’ exposition.
Paul Cézanne: 1877 (1879-82ca), V373=FWN439, Portrait of Victor Chocquet, seated, 46×38, Columbus MA (iR2;iR194,no439;R48,no501;R34,p35;R163,p60;R189,no373;M156) Expos: =Vienna-EdI-1903-59, Portrait des Herrn Chocquet (Durand-Ruel); 2SdA-1904-SPC-23, Portrait de M. Chocquet (à MM. Durand-Ruel et fils); London-GG-1905-42, Portrait of M. Chocquet (1879), lent by Galerie Durand-Ruel.
Auguste Renoir: 1880, SDtl, Paul Cézanne, pastel, 54×45, A2012/05/02 (iRx;iR11;R3,p346;R1,p475;R3,p346;R2,p164) Provenance: Former Chocquet collection. Expo: compare: 2IE-1876-226, Portrait de M. H… (pastel).
Victor Chocquet, art-collector: Chocquet did buy of Monet CR291 1876/o2/05 and in 1878 CR72.
In 1877 he bought a smaller copy of the ‘Moulin de la Galette’ of Renoir, compare 3IE-1877-186.
Paul Cézanne: 1IE-1874-42, La maison du Pendu, à Auvers-sur-Oise =1872-73, V133=FWN81, Sbl, Auvers-sur-Oise, house of the hanged man, 55×66, Orsay (iR2;iR59;iR194,no81;R189,no133;R90II,p21;R87,p235;R2,p120;R410,no170;R48,no136;R1,p334;R163,p46;R231-5;M1) Provenance: 1874 Count Doria (for 300fr); Chocquet. Expo: =EU-1889-C-124, La maison du pendu (à M. Choquet); =7XX-1890-2, Chaumière à Auvers-sur-Oise (lent by Chocquet).
Berthe Morisot: 1874 (1876), Sbl, 1CR623, La lisière du bois (à Maurecourt), wc, 20×26, G. Heim Basel (iR10;iR6;R100,p62;R88II,p452) Provenance: =!? HD1875/03/24-30, Lisière d’un bois (aquarelle) (48×64) -> Chesnau (45fr) (R88II,p452); Chocquet.
Claude Monet: 2IE-1876-159, Les Dahlias =!? 1875, Sbr, CR383, Young girls in a bed of dahlias, 54×66, NG Prague (iR3;iR8;R2,p163;R90II,p58;R22+R127,CR383;M140,no3196) Provenance: Hoschedé (1877/03?), sale HD1878/06/05-56 (62fr); Chocquet, sale GP1899/07/01-82.
Victor Chocquet, auction sale: 1891/04/07 Chocquet died. In 1899 Mme Chocquet died.
1899/07/01+03+04 there was an auction at Georges Petit of the collection of the widow of Victor Chocquet: ‘Tableaux modernes, aquarelles et dessins, objets d’art et d’ameublement par suite du décès de Mme veuve Choquet’.
Saturday the first the most important works were auctioned. Monday the 3rd namely drawings and watercolours were auctioned. At the 4th namely furniture.
It included 32 (35*) works of Cézanne; 11 (12*) of Monet; 1 work of Pissarro (no.87=CCP331), 11 (14*) of Renoir, 1 of Sisley (no.98=CCPP269) and 5 of Manet.
This included CR72 +76 +163 +337 +383 +392 +432 +535 +545 +741 +994 of Monet.
20 works were not in the catalogue (R5,p224).
The total revenues were 450.000fr (R3,p654).
Julie Manet wrote about this auction in her diary (R93,p163/4;R5,p224)
There also has been a second sale of which there is no catalogue left (R5,p224). Note*: Rewald* renders different figures (R1,p396,note28) as Denvir (R5,p223/4).
Edouard Manet (1832-83): 1874, RW219, Claude Monet painting in his studio boat, 80×98, NP Munich (iR10;iR6;iR2;R262,no174;R213,no161+193;R120,no219;M53) =LVM-1880-5; =GP1899/07/03 Chocquet sale
Claude Monet: 1866, S-/Sbl, CR76, fishing boats (study), 45×55, A2023/05/17 (iR2;iR14;R22+R127,CR76) Provenance: Duranty; sale HD1881/01/28-67 (72fr); Chocquet; sale GP1899/07/01-80. Expos: =? 2IE-1876-165, Bateaux de pêche (etude).
Claude Monet: 1871, CR163, Meditation, Mme Monet sitting on a sofa, 48×75, Orsay (iRx;R22IV,p1016+CR163;M1) Provenance: Durand-Ruel (1873); de Montbélird (1889); Chocquet; GP1899/07/01-78. Expos: =South-Kensington-1871-1273, Repose (lent by Durand-Ruel); =Rouen-1872-163 (lent by Durand-Ruel?)
Claude Monet: 1882, CR741, SDbr, The fisherman’s house at Le Petit Ailly, 65×81, private (iR10;iR154;R231-1;R22=R127,no741) Provenance: ?1882/10 Durand-Ruel; sale Charles Leroux HD1888/02/28-58; Chocquet; sale GP1899/07/01-76; Monet; 1907-1909 Durand-Ruel. Expos: GP-1889-M+R-53; EU-1900-C-488, Cabane à Pourville (appartient à M. Claude Monet).
Claude Monet: 7IE-1882-86, Les coquelicots =? 1879, CR535, The Meadow, 79×98, JAM Omaha (iR10;i64;R22,no535;R2,p395) =? LVM-1880-5 =GP-1889-42 =GP1899/07/01 Chocquet sale
Berthe Morisot: 1875, 1=2CR55, The Jetty (On the beach; Isle of Wight), 24×51, VMFA Richmond (iR2;iR6;R2,p169;R90II,p42;R100,no55;R186,no55;M220) Provenance: sale 1879/03/29-76; Chocquet; sale 1899/07/01-86; Pridoneff?. Expos: =BVc-1892-14; =DR1902-53; =London-1905-GG-164. Suggested for 2IE-1876-171, West Cowes, Île de Wight (R2,p169), but probably this doesn’t fit.
Sources: link to auction catalogue: iR426; ia800903.us.archive.org (=iR19);
The following Catalogues Raisonnés (or extended catalogues):
of Caillebotte by Berhaut (1978 =1CR=R101); by Berhaut (1994 =2CR=R102)
of Cézanne by Pissarro & Venturi (1936 =PV=R189); by Rewald, Feilchenfeldt & Warman (1996; =RFW=R118); Feilchenfeldt, Warman & Nash (online: cezannecatalogue; =FWN=iR194)
Gauguin by Wildenstein (1964 =W=1CR=R128); Crussard (2002 =2CR=R181)
Guillaumin by Serret & Fabiani (1971 =CR=SF=R124);
of Monet by Wildenstein (1996 =CR=R22=R127)
of Morisot by Bataille (1960 =1CR=R100); Clairet, Rouart & Montlant (1997 =2CR=CRM=R186)
of Pissarro by Venturi (1939 =V=R126); by Pissarro and Durand-Ruel (2005 =CCP =R116)
of Renoir by Daulte (1971 =1CR=R108); by Fezzi (1968 =1F=R193=R30); by Fezzi (1985 =2F=R190); by Dauberville (2007-14 =2CR=2D=R185)
of Signac by Cachin (2000 =CR=R106)
of Sisley by Daulte (1959 =CR=R129); by Brame & Lorenceau (2021 =CCPP=R396)
Other important sources: R88I,p139-141; R3,p654+159+192+200; R5,p94+104+129+181+223/4; R31; R2,p195+244; R22; R4,p167; R90II,p287; R116I,p428; R396,p525; iR59; iR3; iR4; iR6;
