Description Property from the Descendants of Bertha and Potter Palmer Claude Monet 1840 - 1926 Le Moulin de Limetz signed Claude Monet and dated 88 (lower left) oil on canvas 36 ¼ by 28 ¾ in. 92 by 72.9 cm. Executed in 1888. Provenance Boussod, Valadon & Cie., Paris (acquired directly from the artist on 31 December 1888) Lulling Collection (acquired from the above on 31 August 1891) Boussod, Valadon & Cie., Paris (acquired from the above on 31 December 1891) Bertha and Potter Palmer, Chicago (acquired from the above on 10 May 1892) Gordon Palmer, United States (acquired by descent from the above circa 1961) Thence by descent to the present owners Literature Alphonse de Calonne, "L’art contre nature," Soleil , 23 June 1889, p. 1 Gustave Geffroy, Claude Monet: Sa vie, son temps, son oeuvre , Paris, 1922, p. 118 John Rewald, “Theo van Gogh, Goupil, and the Impressionists,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts , Paris, vol. LXXXI, January-February 1973, pp. 63 and 98 Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné , vol. V, Lausanne, 1991, no. 2027-1210bis, p. 15, illustrated Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné , vol. III, Cologne, 1996, no. 1210a, pp. 460-61, illustrated in color