But for decades before then, the oil painting — one of nearly 250 painted at Monet’s home in Giverny, France — sat idle on the dining room wall of Michel Monet, the artist’s sole living son.

His eldest son, Jean Monet, died an early death in Giverny in 1914, and his younger son, Michel, endured surgery in Paris the same year. If that world of crises and mourning was not enough for the ...

As the website of the Musee Marmottan puts it: “Monet’s last work then went into art historical purgatory.’’ Michel Monet, the artist’s youngest son and sole surviving heir, found that ...

When Monet died, the painting went to his son Michel Monet, who hung it in his family’s home until he decided to sell it in 1959. The painting was then shipped to Portland so the museum could ...

PAM’s is considered a particularly superb interpretation: It hung in the artist’s son Michel Monet’s dining room for more than 35 years before coming to PAM in 1959. That’s when the ...

Painted in Monet's garden at Giverny in 1904, Nympheas was bought from Michel Monet, the artist's son, in the 1920s by a French collector, and remained in the same family for 80 years. The masterpiece ...