クロード・モネ (1840-1926)

 
<div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> from 1872 belongs to one of the most formative chapters in Claude Monet’s career, painted during his early years in Argenteuil where he created nearly one hundred eighty canvases between 1871 and 1878. First owned by Paul Durand Ruel, Monet’s dealer and the most important champion of the Impressionists, the painting is included in the Wildenstein catalogue and was featured in the National Gallery London’s landmark exhibition <em>Monet and Architecture </em>in 2018. Created in the same year as his breakthrough <em>Impression, Sunrise</em>, the work reflects the moment when Monet’s vision for modern landscape took shape and laid the foundation for the movement that would soon be known as Impressionism.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">Monet settled in Argenteuil in late 1871, determined to renew his artistic direction after the upheavals of war and exile. The town offered an enticing blend of historical architecture, modern industry, rustic gardens, and the ever-shifting Seine, all within easy reach of Paris. The Aubrey House, where Monet lived, became a gathering place for Renoir, Manet, Sisley, Caillebotte, and later Pissarro, a setting that fostered both artistic exchange and the planning of the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874. As scholar Paul Hayes Tucker has noted, Argenteuil offered Monet a rare diversity of motifs that he encountered daily, ranging from the charmingly old to the strikingly new.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">In this painting Monet set his easel on rue Pierre Guienne, with his back to the Aubrey House, and painted the seventeenth century building that served at the time as the hospice of the Porte Saint Denis. The structure appears at right, viewed from the Seine, rendered with a quiet clarity that captures the atmosphere of an early spring day. The palette reflects both a reverence for the site’s history and an appreciation for Eugène Boudin, the friend and mentor who had encouraged Monet to paint the play of air and light years earlier and who joined him for a housewarming at Argenteuil on January 2, 1872. The hospice later became the Musée du Vieil Argenteuil, further reinforcing the historical resonance of the site.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> stands as one of Monet’s earliest paintings from this crucial period and offers a faithful, atmospheric interpretation of a place deeply intertwined with the origins of Impressionism. Its blend of gentle tonalities, soft spring light, and direct observation reveals the artist’s growing confidence in painting the world as he perceived it, moment by moment, as a new vision for modern landscape art emerged.</font></div> <div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> from 1872 belongs to one of the most formative chapters in Claude Monet’s career, painted during his early years in Argenteuil where he created nearly one hundred eighty canvases between 1871 and 1878. First owned by Paul Durand Ruel, Monet’s dealer and the most important champion of the Impressionists, the painting is included in the Wildenstein catalogue and was featured in the National Gallery London’s landmark exhibition <em>Monet and Architecture </em>in 2018. Created in the same year as his breakthrough <em>Impression, Sunrise</em>, the work reflects the moment when Monet’s vision for modern landscape took shape and laid the foundation for the movement that would soon be known as Impressionism.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">Monet settled in Argenteuil in late 1871, determined to renew his artistic direction after the upheavals of war and exile. The town offered an enticing blend of historical architecture, modern industry, rustic gardens, and the ever-shifting Seine, all within easy reach of Paris. The Aubrey House, where Monet lived, became a gathering place for Renoir, Manet, Sisley, Caillebotte, and later Pissarro, a setting that fostered both artistic exchange and the planning of the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874. As scholar Paul Hayes Tucker has noted, Argenteuil offered Monet a rare diversity of motifs that he encountered daily, ranging from the charmingly old to the strikingly new.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">In this painting Monet set his easel on rue Pierre Guienne, with his back to the Aubrey House, and painted the seventeenth century building that served at the time as the hospice of the Porte Saint Denis. The structure appears at right, viewed from the Seine, rendered with a quiet clarity that captures the atmosphere of an early spring day. The palette reflects both a reverence for the site’s history and an appreciation for Eugène Boudin, the friend and mentor who had encouraged Monet to paint the play of air and light years earlier and who joined him for a housewarming at Argenteuil on January 2, 1872. The hospice later became the Musée du Vieil Argenteuil, further reinforcing the historical resonance of the site.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> stands as one of Monet’s earliest paintings from this crucial period and offers a faithful, atmospheric interpretation of a place deeply intertwined with the origins of Impressionism. Its blend of gentle tonalities, soft spring light, and direct observation reveals the artist’s growing confidence in painting the world as he perceived it, moment by moment, as a new vision for modern landscape art emerged.</font></div> <div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> from 1872 belongs to one of the most formative chapters in Claude Monet’s career, painted during his early years in Argenteuil where he created nearly one hundred eighty canvases between 1871 and 1878. First owned by Paul Durand Ruel, Monet’s dealer and the most important champion of the Impressionists, the painting is included in the Wildenstein catalogue and was featured in the National Gallery London’s landmark exhibition <em>Monet and Architecture </em>in 2018. Created in the same year as his breakthrough <em>Impression, Sunrise</em>, the work reflects the moment when Monet’s vision for modern landscape took shape and laid the foundation for the movement that would soon be known as Impressionism.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">Monet settled in Argenteuil in late 1871, determined to renew his artistic direction after the upheavals of war and exile. The town offered an enticing blend of historical architecture, modern industry, rustic gardens, and the ever-shifting Seine, all within easy reach of Paris. The Aubrey House, where Monet lived, became a gathering place for Renoir, Manet, Sisley, Caillebotte, and later Pissarro, a setting that fostered both artistic exchange and the planning of the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874. As scholar Paul Hayes Tucker has noted, Argenteuil offered Monet a rare diversity of motifs that he encountered daily, ranging from the charmingly old to the strikingly new.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">In this painting Monet set his easel on rue Pierre Guienne, with his back to the Aubrey House, and painted the seventeenth century building that served at the time as the hospice of the Porte Saint Denis. The structure appears at right, viewed from the Seine, rendered with a quiet clarity that captures the atmosphere of an early spring day. The palette reflects both a reverence for the site’s history and an appreciation for Eugène Boudin, the friend and mentor who had encouraged Monet to paint the play of air and light years earlier and who joined him for a housewarming at Argenteuil on January 2, 1872. The hospice later became the Musée du Vieil Argenteuil, further reinforcing the historical resonance of the site.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> stands as one of Monet’s earliest paintings from this crucial period and offers a faithful, atmospheric interpretation of a place deeply intertwined with the origins of Impressionism. Its blend of gentle tonalities, soft spring light, and direct observation reveals the artist’s growing confidence in painting the world as he perceived it, moment by moment, as a new vision for modern landscape art emerged.</font></div> <div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> from 1872 belongs to one of the most formative chapters in Claude Monet’s career, painted during his early years in Argenteuil where he created nearly one hundred eighty canvases between 1871 and 1878. First owned by Paul Durand Ruel, Monet’s dealer and the most important champion of the Impressionists, the painting is included in the Wildenstein catalogue and was featured in the National Gallery London’s landmark exhibition <em>Monet and Architecture </em>in 2018. Created in the same year as his breakthrough <em>Impression, Sunrise</em>, the work reflects the moment when Monet’s vision for modern landscape took shape and laid the foundation for the movement that would soon be known as Impressionism.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">Monet settled in Argenteuil in late 1871, determined to renew his artistic direction after the upheavals of war and exile. The town offered an enticing blend of historical architecture, modern industry, rustic gardens, and the ever-shifting Seine, all within easy reach of Paris. The Aubrey House, where Monet lived, became a gathering place for Renoir, Manet, Sisley, Caillebotte, and later Pissarro, a setting that fostered both artistic exchange and the planning of the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874. As scholar Paul Hayes Tucker has noted, Argenteuil offered Monet a rare diversity of motifs that he encountered daily, ranging from the charmingly old to the strikingly new.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">In this painting Monet set his easel on rue Pierre Guienne, with his back to the Aubrey House, and painted the seventeenth century building that served at the time as the hospice of the Porte Saint Denis. The structure appears at right, viewed from the Seine, rendered with a quiet clarity that captures the atmosphere of an early spring day. The palette reflects both a reverence for the site’s history and an appreciation for Eugène Boudin, the friend and mentor who had encouraged Monet to paint the play of air and light years earlier and who joined him for a housewarming at Argenteuil on January 2, 1872. The hospice later became the Musée du Vieil Argenteuil, further reinforcing the historical resonance of the site.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> stands as one of Monet’s earliest paintings from this crucial period and offers a faithful, atmospheric interpretation of a place deeply intertwined with the origins of Impressionism. Its blend of gentle tonalities, soft spring light, and direct observation reveals the artist’s growing confidence in painting the world as he perceived it, moment by moment, as a new vision for modern landscape art emerged.</font></div> <div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> from 1872 belongs to one of the most formative chapters in Claude Monet’s career, painted during his early years in Argenteuil where he created nearly one hundred eighty canvases between 1871 and 1878. First owned by Paul Durand Ruel, Monet’s dealer and the most important champion of the Impressionists, the painting is included in the Wildenstein catalogue and was featured in the National Gallery London’s landmark exhibition <em>Monet and Architecture </em>in 2018. Created in the same year as his breakthrough <em>Impression, Sunrise</em>, the work reflects the moment when Monet’s vision for modern landscape took shape and laid the foundation for the movement that would soon be known as Impressionism.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">Monet settled in Argenteuil in late 1871, determined to renew his artistic direction after the upheavals of war and exile. The town offered an enticing blend of historical architecture, modern industry, rustic gardens, and the ever-shifting Seine, all within easy reach of Paris. The Aubrey House, where Monet lived, became a gathering place for Renoir, Manet, Sisley, Caillebotte, and later Pissarro, a setting that fostered both artistic exchange and the planning of the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874. As scholar Paul Hayes Tucker has noted, Argenteuil offered Monet a rare diversity of motifs that he encountered daily, ranging from the charmingly old to the strikingly new.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">In this painting Monet set his easel on rue Pierre Guienne, with his back to the Aubrey House, and painted the seventeenth century building that served at the time as the hospice of the Porte Saint Denis. The structure appears at right, viewed from the Seine, rendered with a quiet clarity that captures the atmosphere of an early spring day. The palette reflects both a reverence for the site’s history and an appreciation for Eugène Boudin, the friend and mentor who had encouraged Monet to paint the play of air and light years earlier and who joined him for a housewarming at Argenteuil on January 2, 1872. The hospice later became the Musée du Vieil Argenteuil, further reinforcing the historical resonance of the site.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> stands as one of Monet’s earliest paintings from this crucial period and offers a faithful, atmospheric interpretation of a place deeply intertwined with the origins of Impressionism. Its blend of gentle tonalities, soft spring light, and direct observation reveals the artist’s growing confidence in painting the world as he perceived it, moment by moment, as a new vision for modern landscape art emerged.</font></div> <div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> from 1872 belongs to one of the most formative chapters in Claude Monet’s career, painted during his early years in Argenteuil where he created nearly one hundred eighty canvases between 1871 and 1878. First owned by Paul Durand Ruel, Monet’s dealer and the most important champion of the Impressionists, the painting is included in the Wildenstein catalogue and was featured in the National Gallery London’s landmark exhibition <em>Monet and Architecture </em>in 2018. Created in the same year as his breakthrough <em>Impression, Sunrise</em>, the work reflects the moment when Monet’s vision for modern landscape took shape and laid the foundation for the movement that would soon be known as Impressionism.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">Monet settled in Argenteuil in late 1871, determined to renew his artistic direction after the upheavals of war and exile. The town offered an enticing blend of historical architecture, modern industry, rustic gardens, and the ever-shifting Seine, all within easy reach of Paris. The Aubrey House, where Monet lived, became a gathering place for Renoir, Manet, Sisley, Caillebotte, and later Pissarro, a setting that fostered both artistic exchange and the planning of the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874. As scholar Paul Hayes Tucker has noted, Argenteuil offered Monet a rare diversity of motifs that he encountered daily, ranging from the charmingly old to the strikingly new.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">In this painting Monet set his easel on rue Pierre Guienne, with his back to the Aubrey House, and painted the seventeenth century building that served at the time as the hospice of the Porte Saint Denis. The structure appears at right, viewed from the Seine, rendered with a quiet clarity that captures the atmosphere of an early spring day. The palette reflects both a reverence for the site’s history and an appreciation for Eugène Boudin, the friend and mentor who had encouraged Monet to paint the play of air and light years earlier and who joined him for a housewarming at Argenteuil on January 2, 1872. The hospice later became the Musée du Vieil Argenteuil, further reinforcing the historical resonance of the site.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> stands as one of Monet’s earliest paintings from this crucial period and offers a faithful, atmospheric interpretation of a place deeply intertwined with the origins of Impressionism. Its blend of gentle tonalities, soft spring light, and direct observation reveals the artist’s growing confidence in painting the world as he perceived it, moment by moment, as a new vision for modern landscape art emerged.</font></div> <div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> from 1872 belongs to one of the most formative chapters in Claude Monet’s career, painted during his early years in Argenteuil where he created nearly one hundred eighty canvases between 1871 and 1878. First owned by Paul Durand Ruel, Monet’s dealer and the most important champion of the Impressionists, the painting is included in the Wildenstein catalogue and was featured in the National Gallery London’s landmark exhibition <em>Monet and Architecture </em>in 2018. Created in the same year as his breakthrough <em>Impression, Sunrise</em>, the work reflects the moment when Monet’s vision for modern landscape took shape and laid the foundation for the movement that would soon be known as Impressionism.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">Monet settled in Argenteuil in late 1871, determined to renew his artistic direction after the upheavals of war and exile. The town offered an enticing blend of historical architecture, modern industry, rustic gardens, and the ever-shifting Seine, all within easy reach of Paris. The Aubrey House, where Monet lived, became a gathering place for Renoir, Manet, Sisley, Caillebotte, and later Pissarro, a setting that fostered both artistic exchange and the planning of the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874. As scholar Paul Hayes Tucker has noted, Argenteuil offered Monet a rare diversity of motifs that he encountered daily, ranging from the charmingly old to the strikingly new.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">In this painting Monet set his easel on rue Pierre Guienne, with his back to the Aubrey House, and painted the seventeenth century building that served at the time as the hospice of the Porte Saint Denis. The structure appears at right, viewed from the Seine, rendered with a quiet clarity that captures the atmosphere of an early spring day. The palette reflects both a reverence for the site’s history and an appreciation for Eugène Boudin, the friend and mentor who had encouraged Monet to paint the play of air and light years earlier and who joined him for a housewarming at Argenteuil on January 2, 1872. The hospice later became the Musée du Vieil Argenteuil, further reinforcing the historical resonance of the site.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> stands as one of Monet’s earliest paintings from this crucial period and offers a faithful, atmospheric interpretation of a place deeply intertwined with the origins of Impressionism. Its blend of gentle tonalities, soft spring light, and direct observation reveals the artist’s growing confidence in painting the world as he perceived it, moment by moment, as a new vision for modern landscape art emerged.</font></div> <div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> from 1872 belongs to one of the most formative chapters in Claude Monet’s career, painted during his early years in Argenteuil where he created nearly one hundred eighty canvases between 1871 and 1878. First owned by Paul Durand Ruel, Monet’s dealer and the most important champion of the Impressionists, the painting is included in the Wildenstein catalogue and was featured in the National Gallery London’s landmark exhibition <em>Monet and Architecture </em>in 2018. Created in the same year as his breakthrough <em>Impression, Sunrise</em>, the work reflects the moment when Monet’s vision for modern landscape took shape and laid the foundation for the movement that would soon be known as Impressionism.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">Monet settled in Argenteuil in late 1871, determined to renew his artistic direction after the upheavals of war and exile. The town offered an enticing blend of historical architecture, modern industry, rustic gardens, and the ever-shifting Seine, all within easy reach of Paris. The Aubrey House, where Monet lived, became a gathering place for Renoir, Manet, Sisley, Caillebotte, and later Pissarro, a setting that fostered both artistic exchange and the planning of the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874. As scholar Paul Hayes Tucker has noted, Argenteuil offered Monet a rare diversity of motifs that he encountered daily, ranging from the charmingly old to the strikingly new.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">In this painting Monet set his easel on rue Pierre Guienne, with his back to the Aubrey House, and painted the seventeenth century building that served at the time as the hospice of the Porte Saint Denis. The structure appears at right, viewed from the Seine, rendered with a quiet clarity that captures the atmosphere of an early spring day. The palette reflects both a reverence for the site’s history and an appreciation for Eugène Boudin, the friend and mentor who had encouraged Monet to paint the play of air and light years earlier and who joined him for a housewarming at Argenteuil on January 2, 1872. The hospice later became the Musée du Vieil Argenteuil, further reinforcing the historical resonance of the site.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> stands as one of Monet’s earliest paintings from this crucial period and offers a faithful, atmospheric interpretation of a place deeply intertwined with the origins of Impressionism. Its blend of gentle tonalities, soft spring light, and direct observation reveals the artist’s growing confidence in painting the world as he perceived it, moment by moment, as a new vision for modern landscape art emerged.</font></div> <div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> from 1872 belongs to one of the most formative chapters in Claude Monet’s career, painted during his early years in Argenteuil where he created nearly one hundred eighty canvases between 1871 and 1878. First owned by Paul Durand Ruel, Monet’s dealer and the most important champion of the Impressionists, the painting is included in the Wildenstein catalogue and was featured in the National Gallery London’s landmark exhibition <em>Monet and Architecture </em>in 2018. Created in the same year as his breakthrough <em>Impression, Sunrise</em>, the work reflects the moment when Monet’s vision for modern landscape took shape and laid the foundation for the movement that would soon be known as Impressionism.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">Monet settled in Argenteuil in late 1871, determined to renew his artistic direction after the upheavals of war and exile. The town offered an enticing blend of historical architecture, modern industry, rustic gardens, and the ever-shifting Seine, all within easy reach of Paris. The Aubrey House, where Monet lived, became a gathering place for Renoir, Manet, Sisley, Caillebotte, and later Pissarro, a setting that fostered both artistic exchange and the planning of the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874. As scholar Paul Hayes Tucker has noted, Argenteuil offered Monet a rare diversity of motifs that he encountered daily, ranging from the charmingly old to the strikingly new.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">In this painting Monet set his easel on rue Pierre Guienne, with his back to the Aubrey House, and painted the seventeenth century building that served at the time as the hospice of the Porte Saint Denis. The structure appears at right, viewed from the Seine, rendered with a quiet clarity that captures the atmosphere of an early spring day. The palette reflects both a reverence for the site’s history and an appreciation for Eugène Boudin, the friend and mentor who had encouraged Monet to paint the play of air and light years earlier and who joined him for a housewarming at Argenteuil on January 2, 1872. The hospice later became the Musée du Vieil Argenteuil, further reinforcing the historical resonance of the site.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> stands as one of Monet’s earliest paintings from this crucial period and offers a faithful, atmospheric interpretation of a place deeply intertwined with the origins of Impressionism. Its blend of gentle tonalities, soft spring light, and direct observation reveals the artist’s growing confidence in painting the world as he perceived it, moment by moment, as a new vision for modern landscape art emerged.</font></div> <div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> from 1872 belongs to one of the most formative chapters in Claude Monet’s career, painted during his early years in Argenteuil where he created nearly one hundred eighty canvases between 1871 and 1878. First owned by Paul Durand Ruel, Monet’s dealer and the most important champion of the Impressionists, the painting is included in the Wildenstein catalogue and was featured in the National Gallery London’s landmark exhibition <em>Monet and Architecture </em>in 2018. Created in the same year as his breakthrough <em>Impression, Sunrise</em>, the work reflects the moment when Monet’s vision for modern landscape took shape and laid the foundation for the movement that would soon be known as Impressionism.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">Monet settled in Argenteuil in late 1871, determined to renew his artistic direction after the upheavals of war and exile. The town offered an enticing blend of historical architecture, modern industry, rustic gardens, and the ever-shifting Seine, all within easy reach of Paris. The Aubrey House, where Monet lived, became a gathering place for Renoir, Manet, Sisley, Caillebotte, and later Pissarro, a setting that fostered both artistic exchange and the planning of the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874. As scholar Paul Hayes Tucker has noted, Argenteuil offered Monet a rare diversity of motifs that he encountered daily, ranging from the charmingly old to the strikingly new.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919">In this painting Monet set his easel on rue Pierre Guienne, with his back to the Aubrey House, and painted the seventeenth century building that served at the time as the hospice of the Porte Saint Denis. The structure appears at right, viewed from the Seine, rendered with a quiet clarity that captures the atmosphere of an early spring day. The palette reflects both a reverence for the site’s history and an appreciation for Eugène Boudin, the friend and mentor who had encouraged Monet to paint the play of air and light years earlier and who joined him for a housewarming at Argenteuil on January 2, 1872. The hospice later became the Musée du Vieil Argenteuil, further reinforcing the historical resonance of the site.</font></div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color="#191919"><em>Argenteuil, l’Hospice</em> stands as one of Monet’s earliest paintings from this crucial period and offers a faithful, atmospheric interpretation of a place deeply intertwined with the origins of Impressionism. Its blend of gentle tonalities, soft spring light, and direct observation reveals the artist’s growing confidence in painting the world as he perceived it, moment by moment, as a new vision for modern landscape art emerged.</font></div>
アルジャントゥイユ、ホスピス1872年20 x 25 5/8 インチ(50.8 x 65.09 cm) 油彩・キャンバス
出所
デュラン=リュエル、パリ(1872年9月に作家から購入)
オークション:アルザス=ロレーヌ支援チャリティーオークション パリ、1873年4月18-19日、ロット104
キャソリーナ・ランバート、ニューヨーク
オークション:プラザホテル・ニューヨーク、1916年2月21-22日、ロット136(題名『アルジャントゥイユの眺め』)
M. E. エルドリッジ
ショーネマン・ギャラリー、ニューヨーク
ウェーブ・ギャラリー、ロンドン
オークション:サザビーズ・ニューヨーク、1998年11月17日、ロット240
個人コレクション(上記オークションで購入)
個人コレクション、相続により
個人コレクション、カリ
...もっとその。。。カリフォルニア
展示会
トレヴィーゾ、カラレーゼ家美術館、モネ:絵画の場所、2001年9月29日~2002年2月10日、p. 358、作品番号11(『アルジュヌイユ、療養所』と題され、図版付き)
ロンドン、ナショナル・ギャラリー、モネと建築、2018年4月9日~7月29日、作品番号40(『アルジャントゥイユ、ホスピス』と題され、図版付き、122-23ページ、作品番号115)
文学
D. ヴィルデンシュタイン、『クロード・モネ:伝記と作品総覧』、パリ、1974年、第1巻、216-217頁、作品番号240(図版付)
P. H. タッカー『アルジャントゥイユのモネ』ミラノ、1982年、27・30頁、図版13(図版付き)
D. ヴィルデンシュタイン編『クロード・モネ作品総覧』ローザンヌ、1991年、第5巻(絵画・素描・パステル補遺、索引)、27頁、作品番号240
D. ヴィルデンシュタイン編『モネ:作品総覧』第2巻、パリ、1996年、105頁、作品番号240(図版掲載)
...少ない。。。
1872年の『アルジャントゥイユ、ホスピス』は、クロード・モネのキャリアにおいて最も重要な形成期の一つに属する作品である。1871年から1878年にかけて、アルジャントゥイユでの初期の時代に描かれ、この地で彼は約180点のキャンバスを制作した。 モネの画商であり印象派の最も重要な支援者であったポール・デュラン=リュエルが最初に所有した本作は、ワイルデンシュタインのカタログに掲載され、2018年にロンドン・ナショナル・ギャラリーで開催された画期的な展覧会「モネと建築」でも紹介された。 画風の転換点となった『印象、日の出』と同じ年に制作された本作は、モネの近代的風景観が形作られ、やがて印象派として知られる運動の礎を築いた瞬間を映し出している。


 


モネは1871年末にアルジャントゥイユに定住した。戦争と亡命の激動を経て、芸術的方向性の刷新を決意したのだ。この町は歴史的建造物、近代産業、田園的な庭園、刻々と姿を変えるセーヌ川が魅力的に融合し、しかもパリから容易にアクセスできる場所であった。 モネが住んだオーブリー邸は、ルノワール、マネ、シスレー、カイユボット、後にピサロが集う場となり、芸術的交流と1874年の最初の印象派展の計画を育んだ。学者ポール・ヘイズ・タッカーが指摘するように、アルジャントゥイユはモネに、古風な魅力から目を見張る新しさまで、日々出会う稀有なモチーフの多様性を提供した。


 


この作品でモネは、オーブリー邸を背にピエール・ギエンヌ通りにイーゼルを立て、当時ポルト・サン・ドニの救護院として使われていた17世紀の建物を描いた。セーヌ川から見たその建物は右側に位置し、早春の日の雰囲気を捉えた静謐な明瞭さで表現されている。 その配色は、この場所の歴史への敬意と、友人であり師でもあったウジェーヌ・ブーダンへの賛辞を反映している。ブーダンは、はるか昔にモネに空気と光の戯れを描くよう勧め、1872年1月2日にはアルジャントゥイユでの新居祝いに彼と共に訪れた人物である。このホスピスは後に「アルジャントゥイユ古館博物館」となり、この場所の歴史的共鳴をさらに強めている。


 


『アルジャントゥイユ、ホスピス』は、この重要な時期におけるモネの初期作品の一つとして位置づけられ、印象派の起源と深く結びついた場所を忠実に、かつ雰囲気豊かに解釈している。穏やかな色調、柔らかな春の光、そして直接的な観察が融合した本作は、現代的な風景画の新たなビジョンが生まれる中で、瞬間ごとに自らの知覚した世界を絵画に表現する芸術家の確信が深まりつつあることを示している。
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