The Artist's House at Argenteuil
Claude Monet
1873
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60.2 × 73.3 cm (23 11/16 × 28 7/8 in.); Framed: 80.7 × 93.4 × 11.5 cm (31 3/4 × 36 3/4 × 4 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- oil on canvas
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
oil paintings (visual works)paintingfrancenineteenth century19th centurypaintfamiliesChicago World's FairscanvaswomanImpressionismCentury of Progressdomestic scenesHousegirloil on canvasfrenchhomesLeisureoil paint (paint)painting (image making)painting techniquesflowersworld's fairstoyslandscapesgardenbusheschildrentoyoil paintingtreeseuropean paintingfoliageweather/seasons
About
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.
