Claude MonetFrancia, 1840–1926The Artist's House at Argenteuil
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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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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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Nella vita di Claude Monet
Tutta la vita1870–1871
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.
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.
