''Argenteuil'' is an 1874 oil on canvas painting by

Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Born ...

(1832-1883), first exhibited at the

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of 1875. It is one of Manet's first works to qualify fully as an

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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 '' Figaro'' journalist Jean Rousseau as "in the foreground, Argenteuil jam on an indigo river" It is now in the Musée des beaux-arts in

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, Belgium. From 1872 onwards Manet's themes and brighter palette were echoing those of

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and

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. He spent summer 1874 in

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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 frequently travelled there and

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was based at Petit-Gennevilliers. He also produced ''The Monet Family in their Garden'' (1874,

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) and ''

Claude Monet Painting in his Studio ''Claude Monet Painting in his Studio'' or ''Monet in his Boat'' is an 1874 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet. It shows his friend Claude Monet painting in his 'studio-boat' with his wife. This was an old boat Monet had bought around 1871 ...

'' (1874,

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) in the open air that summer whilst in close contact with Monet. James H. Rubin (trad. Jeanne Bouniort), ''Manet : Initiale M, l’œil, une main'', Paris, Flammarion, 2011, 416 p. (), p. 292-298 The work shows a man in a boater and a young woman sitting beside the

Seine ) , mouth_location = Le Havre/Honfleur , mouth_coordinates = , mouth_elevation = , progression = , river_system = Seine basin , basin_size = , tributaries_left = Yonne, Loing, Eure, Risle , tributarie ...

Argenteuil Argenteuil () is a Communes of France, commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, center of Paris. Argenteuil is a Subprefectures in France, sub-prefecture of the Val-d'Oise Departments of France, ...

(now in

Val-d'Oise Val-d'Oise (, "Vale of the Oise") is a department in the Île-de-France region, Northern France. It was created in 1968 following the split of the Seine-et-Oise department. In 2019, Val-d'Oise had a population of 1,249,674.

) - the village is in the background. Manet asked

and his wife Camille to pose for the painting but they could not hold the pose for long enough. Manet's brother-in-law Rudolf Leenhoff or baron Barbier (a friend of Guy de Maupassant) was probably the model for the man, though the model for the woman is unknown. File:Monet Painting on His Studio Boat Edouard Manet 1874.jpg, ''

'', 1874,

File:Édouard Manet --The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil.jpg, ''The Monet Family in their Garden'', 1874,

File:Banks of the Seine at Argenteuil Edouard Manet 1874.jpg, ''Banks of the Seine at Argenteuil'', 1874,

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References

Bibliography

* L. Venturi, ''La via dell'impressionismo : da Manet a Cézanne'', G. Einaudi, 1970. * Émile Zola, ''Mon salon : Manet. Écrits sur l'art'', Garnier-Flammarion, 1970. * J. Wilson-Bareau, « L'année impressionniste de Manet : Argenteuil et Venise en 1874 », ''Revue de l'Art'', 1989. * P. Bonafoux, ''De Manet à Caillebotte : les impressionnistes à Gennevilliers'', Éditions Plume, 1993.

External links

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