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Le Bassin d' Argenteuil

A view of a river from above with a riverbank on the left side of the painting and sailboats coming into and leaving the port on the right side. In the distant background, there are factory buildings and a tall smoke stack. The composition is rendered in small, loose strokes of paint and the sky blurs with the river at the horizon line.

A view of a river from above with a riverbank on the left side of the painting and sailboats coming into and leaving the port on the right side. In the distant background, there are factory buildings and a tall smoke stack. The composition is rendered in small, loose strokes of paint and the sky blurs with the river at the horizon line.

Artist Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
Title Le Bassin d' Argenteuil
Date 1874
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Stretcher: 21 3/4 × 25 7/8 in. (55.2 × 65.7 cm)
Framed: 32 7/8 × 36 3/4 × 4 1/2 in. (83.5 × 93.3 × 11.4 cm)
Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 76.15

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About this Work

Many of the Impressionists congregated at the small town of Argenteuil near Paris to paint the River Seine. The town was popular during the summer with urban day-trippers who enjoyed sailing on the river—as the large number of sailboats in this painting indicates. Claude Monet, who lived in Argenteuil from 1871 to 1878, constructed a bateau-atelier, or “boat studio,” in order to achieve a more intimate vantage point from which to paint the river; his boat is visible in the lower-right corner of the painting. In this work, painted from a bridge, Monet conveyed atmospheric effects through loose brushwork and the suppression of details.


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