An 1894 impressionist landscape by the American painter Theodore Earl Butler, titled Les Environs de Giverny, sold for €65,000 at a sale held at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris, quadruple its pre-sale estimate. The result was reported by the Gazette Drouot on 9 October. The painting, executed while Butler was working in the village made famous by his teacher and father-in-law Claude Monet, takes the poplars of the Giverny countryside as its subject — a motif closely associated with Monet himself. Butler was among the American artists who settled around Monet's orbit in the 1890s, and his work from this period trades on the same luminous plein-air language. The result stands out in a week of brisk Drouot trading. The Gazette's round-up of the house's recent results also noted strong performances in other categories, including a Melanesian ritual mask that quadrupled its estimate at Giquello and Italian design pieces by Gio Ponti and Paolo Buffa that drew keen interest at Piasa. Butler first travelled to France in the late 1880s and became part of the small colony of American painters that settled around Monet at Giverny in the 1890s. He went on to marry Suzanne Hoschedé, Monet's stepdaughter, making him a member of the Monet household itself, and he kept working in the region into the twentieth century. As a result, his Giverny canvases carry a directness of lineage that collectors prize: a view painted under the eye of the man who was simultaneously his teacher and his father-in-law. The sale was conducted by the auction house R&C in Drouot's rooms on the rue Drouot. While €65,000 is modest by the standards of the international evening sales, the multiple over estimate suggests continuing depth in the market for well-provenanced impressionist works at accessible levels, particularly those with a direct connection to canonical figures like Monet.