The Artist's House at Argenteuil
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
1873
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- 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.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
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.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
