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.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
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Artist
- Claude Monet
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Title
- The Artist's House at Argenteuil
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1873
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Medium
- Oil on canvas
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed, lower right: Claude Monet
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Dimensions
- 60.2 × 73.3 cm (23 11/16 × 28 7/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
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Reference Number
- 1933.1153
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/16554/manifest.json
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