Argenteuil (painting)
''Argenteuil'' is an 1874 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet (1832-1883), first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1875. It is one of Manet's first works to qualify fully as an Impressionism, Impressionist work, Christa von Lengerke, ''Los maestros de la pintura occidental'', Taschen, 2005 (), Del Impresionismo al Art Nouveau, p. 492. due to its naturalistic subject and its bold palette, such as the blue of the river, mocked by the ''Le Figaro, Figaro'' journalist Jean Rousseau as "in the foreground, Argenteuil jam on an indigo river" It is now in the Musée des beaux-arts de Tournai, Musée des beaux-arts in Tournai, Belgium. From 1872 onwards Manet's themes and brighter palette were echoing those of Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir. He spent summer 1874 in Gennevilliers and took the chance to visit his friend Monet, who had lived at Argenteuil since 1873. The surrounding villages beside the Seine were then full of Impressionist painters - as well as Manet and Monet, Renoir fre ...
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