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The Artist's House at Argenteuil

Among potted flowers and lush foliage, a tiny child in a white dress plays with a hoop. A woman peers at the child from an ivy-covered building at right.
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  • Among potted flowers and lush foliage, a tiny child in a white dress plays with a hoop. A woman peers at the child from an ivy-covered building at right.

Date:

1873

Artist:

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

About this artwork

Claude Monet and his family lived at Argenteuil, outside Paris, from 1871 to 1878. Here he depicted his five- or six-year-old son, Jean, playing with a hoop and his wife, Camille, standing in the doorway of their vine-covered house. The pleasant weather and neatly kept garden, a forerunner of the artist’s celebrated garden at Giverny, give a sense of tranquility and well-being to this painting. This was a period of financial security for Monet thanks to recent sales of his work to the Paris art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist

Claude Monet

Title

The Artist's House at Argenteuil

Place

France (Artist's nationality)

Date

1873

Medium

Oil on canvas

Inscriptions

Inscribed, lower right: Claude Monet

Dimensions

60.2 × 73.3 cm (23 11/16 × 28 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection

Reference Number

1933.1153

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