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Claude Monet / Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat
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Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat

1874 · Oil on canvas

A single sailboat rests on the calm water of the basin at Argenteuil, where Monet lived in the 1870s.

ArtistCClaude Monet
MuseumNNational Gallery of Ireland
MovementIImpressionism
LocationDublin, Ireland
Dimensions55 × 65 cm
SourceWikidata Q19570879

Why it matters

A single sailboat rests on the basin at Argenteuil on an autumn day. In 2012 a visitor punched the painting, causing a large three-branched tear.

Did you know?

  • It was painted in 1874.
  • Restoration took 18 months, sewing microscopic threads back together.
  • Edward Martyn bequeathed it to the National Gallery of Ireland in 1924.

Based on the Wikipedia article Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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