Monet Painting In His Argenteuil Garden, by Renoir

Monet Painting in His Argenteuil Garden
a work by Pierre Auguste Renoir
oil on canvas, 1873
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
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Argenteuil used to be a rural escape for Parisians, it is now a suburb of the city. Painters made it famous. Among them Monet and Renoir. Also Sisley, Caillebotte, and Braque (wiki).

And Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest art museum in the United States. It opened in 1844.


(Renoir)

(Monet)