The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil
Edouard Manet
€39,90
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil, painted in 1874 by Édouard Manet, is one of the most celebrated documents of camaraderie among the French Impressionist circle. That summer, Manet visited his close friend Claude Monet at his rented home in Argenteuil, a riverside suburb of Paris that had become a favored retreat for avant-garde painters. The canvas captures Monet tending to his garden while his wife Camille and their young son Jean relax nearby, bathed in the dappled light of a warm afternoon.
Manet's technique here reveals the unmistakable influence of Monet's own plein-air practice. The brushwork is loose and spontaneous, with flickering strokes of color conveying sunlight filtering through foliage rather than fixed, academic form. The composition is intimate yet open, celebrating leisure, nature, and the bonds of artistic friendship. Notably, Monet is said to have painted alongside Manet during this very session, making the moment doubly historic. The work belongs to the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where it stands as a testament to Impressionism's revolutionary spirit.
This museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction is printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch wooden frame with a classic gallery wrap finish — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Edouard Manet |
| Year | 1874 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 24 x 39 1/4 in. (61 x 99.7 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Impressionism |
| Available sizes | |
| Small | 25 × 20 cm (10″ × 8″) |
| Medium | 76 × 51 cm (30″ × 20″) |
| Large | 152 × 102 cm (60″ × 40″) |
| All sizes include a 0.75" gallery wrap. Ready to hang — no framing required. | |
