Sailing Boats at Argenteuil (Voiliers à Argenteuil), 1872-1873 by Claude Monet

Sailing Boats at Argenteuil (Voiliers à Argenteuil), painted by Claude Monet around 1872-1873, gathers a cluster of pleasure boats moored along the Seine, their bare masts rising into a pale, cloud-streaked sky while a single white sail glides past in the distance. The calm water mirrors hulls and rigging in loose strokes of blue, cream and russet, revealing Monet’s deepening fascination with light playing across the river’s surface. Painted soon after he settled at Argenteuil in 1871, the canvas belongs to the fertile years when the town’s boat basin became a proving ground for early Impressionism, and the work now hangs in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: 1872-1873.

Sailing Boats at Argenteuil (Voiliers à Argenteuil), 1872-1873 by Claude Monet. Impressionist River Scene Wall Art Canvas Print.