Yacht Race at Argenteuil (Régates à Argenteuil), 1872 by Claude Monet

Yacht Race at Argenteuil, painted by Claude Monet in 1872, captures a fleet of racing yachts with brightly coloured sails skimming the Seine basin at Argenteuil, their hulls and rigging mirrored in vivid, broken reflections across the water. Regattas drew fashionable Parisians to the town throughout the 1870s, and Monet, working from a small studio boat, returned to the subject repeatedly, combining the spectacle of bourgeois leisure with his central preoccupation: the shifting play of light on water.

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: 1872.

Yacht Race at Argenteuil (Régates à Argenteuil), 1872 by Claude Monet. Seine Regatta Wall Art Canvas Print.