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Claude Monet

The Basin at Argenteuil (Le Bassin d'Argenteuil)

Description

Maker

Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)

Title

The Basin at Argenteuil (Le Bassin d'Argenteuil)

Year

1874

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

oil paint

Supports

Geography

Place Made: France

Dimensions

55.2 x 74.3 cm (21 3/4 x 29 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signature: Signed LL:Claude Monet

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

42.219

Type

Provenance

Purchased from the artist for 80 francs by Comte Jean de Rasty, possibly under the title Esquisse, Argenteuil; purchased from de Rasty by Alexandre Rosenberg for 3,500 francs, Paris, 1898; Lazare Weiller, Paris; Hotel Drouot, Paris, sale L. Weiller, November 29, 1901, no. 32; Bernheim-Jeune, Paris; Gaston Bernheim de Villiers, Paris, 1919; M. Knoedler, New York, 1928; Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York, 1936; Mrs. Murray S. Danforth, Providence, 1938. Note: This provenance is published in Rosenfeld, RISD Museum, 1991.

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

European Galleries
Sep 02, 2017

Label copy

The boat basin at Argenteuil, with its long promenade and terraced café, was a popular site for watching sailing regattas on the Seine. Monet set up his easel on an island across the river, distinguishing optical effects and textures with strategically varied brushmarks. Using pigments direct from tubes and mixed on his palette, he evoked the bramble of grasses in the foreground with congested jabs of color. Horizontal dashes capture the water and the reflections of broadly painted sailboats, and tiny dark and light flicks mark a procession of plane trees.

Inventing Impressionism
Oct 21, 2016 – Jun 11, 2017

Label copy

The boat basin at Argenteuil, with its long promenade and terraced café, was a popular site for watching sailing regattas on the Seine. Monet set up his easel on an island across the river, distinguishing optical effects and textures with strategically varied brushmarks. Using pigments direct from tubes and mixed on his palette, he evoked the bramble of grasses in the foreground with congested jabs of color. A dappled mosaic of horizontal dashes captures the movement of water and the reflections of broadly painted sailboats. Along the riverwalk, dark and light flicks of paint mark a procession of plane trees whose gray-green leaves and their purple shadows are rendered with a flattened touch.

European Painting and Sculpture, circa 1770-1937
Oct 18, 1991 – Jan 26, 1992
Exchange Exhibition of Paintings from Rose Museum, Brandeis University
Feb 16, 1967 – Apr 02, 1967

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Tombstone

Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
The Basin at Argenteuil (Le Bassin d'Argenteuil), 1874
Oil on canvas
55.2 x 74.3 cm (21 3/4 x 29 1/4 inches)
Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth 42.219

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