Regatta at Argenteuil (Régates à Argenteuil), painted by Claude Monet around 1872 captures white sails leaning into the breeze as racing boats sweep along the Seine beneath a brooding silver sky, a small steam launch chugging past on the right. Monet settled at Argenteuil in 1871, and the riverside town's lively regattas gave him the perfect stage for studying wind, water and shifting light. Painted two years before the first Impressionist exhibition, the scene's fragmented brushwork already carries the full spirit of the movement, and the composition is linked to the celebrated regatta canvas in the Musée d'Orsay.
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: 1872.
Regatta at Argenteuil (Régates à Argenteuil), 1872 by Claude Monet. Impressionist Sailing Wall Art Canvas Print.