Claude MonetFrench, 1840–1926The Artist's House at Argenteuil
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Art Institute of Chicago
Room201Chicago, United States
On public display.
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- Aug 16, 2026
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About the painting
The Artist's House at Argenteuil (French: Maison de l'artiste à Argenteuil) is an 1873 oil painting by French artist Claude Monet. The work depicts his wife Camille and their young son Jean in the garden at their house in Argenteuil. It is an uncommon painting by Monet of his family in a domestic scene at their home, and was painted in a place and time that represented the "birth of Impressionism."
The painting is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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- Image: Wikimedia Commons — Public domain (PD-Art)
Meanwhile, in the life of Claude Monet
The whole life1870–1871
London exile
Evading conscription during the Franco-Prussian War, Monet lived in London, where he studied Constable and Turner, met Pissarro and Whistler, and became acquainted with his first and principal dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel — an encounter decisive for his career.
May 1871
Zaandam: 25 paintings
Leaving London, Monet settled in Zaandam in the Netherlands, where he painted twenty-five pictures (the police suspected him of revolutionary activity). During this period he also made his first visit to Amsterdam.
1874
First Impressionist exhibition
At the exhibition, organized on the initiative of Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon, "Impression, Sunrise" was shown. The critic Leroy mockingly dubbed the participants "impressionists" — and so the term Impressionism was born.
