# The Artist's House at Argenteuil

- By: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16554)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/7d533ed4-ff54-fa2c-64f4-2b16bfbb5880/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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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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