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The Artist's House at Argenteuil

Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

1873

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About this work

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.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Original size
60.2 × 73.3 cm (23 11/16 × 28 7/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago · 1933.1153 ↗
Museum record · 2 owners · 26 exhibitions

Provenance

  • The artist (d. 1926); possibly sold to Alexandre Dubourg, Paris, 1873; possibly sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Jan. 9, 1882.
  • Durand-Ruel, Paris, Apr. 29, 1890, for 1,500 francs; sold to Potter Palmer, Chicago, July 8, 1891, for 5,000 francs; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, Nov. 23, 1894, for $2,500; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, Apr. 24, 1912, for $6,200; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

Exhibitions

  • Possibly Paris, Durand-Ruel, Exposition des oeuvres de Cl.
  • Monet, Mar. 1–25, 1883, no cat. no. Possibly Boston, American Exhibition of Foreign Products, Art and Manufactures, Art Department, Sept. 1–Dec. 1, 1883, as My Garden.
  • London, Dudley Gallery, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, Exposition de tableaux Impressionnistes appartenant à Durand-Ruel, May, 1884, no cat. no. New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exposition of Forty Paintings by Claude Monet, Jan. 12–27, 1895, as Maison de Monet à Argenteuil, 1872.
  • New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings of Different Periods by Monet, Feb. 8–25, 1911, as Maison de Monet à Argenteuil, 1872.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Nov. 1, 1933.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934.
  • Chicago, Lakeside Press Galleries, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Dec. 27, 1944–Jan. 24, 1945, no cat. Art Center in La Jolla (Calif.), Great French Paintings, 1870–1910, June 15–July 26, 1956.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1–June 15, 1957, no cat. no. Tokyo, Galeries Seibu, Claude Monet, Mar. 30–May 15, 1973; Kyoto Municipal Museum, May 19–June 26, 1973; Centre Culturel de Fukuoka, July 11–29, 1973.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15–May 11, 1975.
  • New York, Acquavella Galleries, Claude Monet, Oct. 27–Nov. 28, 1976.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–Sept. 16, 1984; Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 23, 1984–Jan. 6, 1985; Paris, Galeries Nationales d’Exposition du Grand Palais, as L’impressionnisme et le paysage français, Feb. 4–Apr. 22, 1985.
  • Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Shikago bijutsukan insho-ha ten, Oct. 18–Dec. 17, 1985; Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5–Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4–Apr. 13, 1986.
  • Leningrad, Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago, March 15-May 19, 1988; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, July 22–Nov. 26, 1995.
  • Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Impressionists at Argenteuil, May 28–Aug. 20, 2000; Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Sept. 6–Dec. 3, 2000.
  • Kunsthaus Zürich, Monet’s Garten, Oct. 29, 2004–Mar. 13, 2005.
  • Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Women in Impressionism: From Mythical Feminine to Modern Woman, Oct. 6, 2006–Jan. 21, 2007.
  • Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008.
  • Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, Impressionist Gardens, July 31–Oct. 17, 2010; Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Nov. 16, 2010–Feb. 14, 2011 (Edinburgh only).
  • Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, Oct. 11, 2015-Jan.3, 2016.
  • Treviso, Museo di Santa Caterina, Storie dell'Impressionismo, October 29, 2016-April 17, 2017.
  • Detroit, Monet: Framing Life, Oct. 22, 2017-March 4, 2018.
  • Denver, Colorado, Denver Art Museum, Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature, Oct. 10 2019 - Feb. 2, 2020.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021.
  • Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, Les Enfants de l'impressionnisme.
  • Au-delà des images, Mar. 31 - July 2, 2023.
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