Édouard Manet
(1832 - 1883)
 

Argenteuil is an 1874 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1875. It is one of Manet's first works to be regarded as a fully Impressionist painting due to its naturalistic style and its bold palette. The painting depicts a sailor and his companion sitting on a mooring dock surrounded by sailboats, the deep blue water of the Seine, and the town of Argenteuil on the far bank.
Manet's brother-in-law Rodolph Leenhoff posed for the figure of the man, who has an expression of intimacy in the painting; the woman, whose identity is unknown, appears less expressive, which the art historian Françoise Cachin attributes to the difficulty of posing for Manet

Art historians have described Argenteuil as a response to Claude Monet's depiction of similar subject matter.

Manet held the painting until his death. After his death, Henri Van Cutsem purchased it from Manet's widow, Suzzane Manet. Van Cutsem eventually bequeathed his collection to the city of Tournai, Belgium where the painting currently resides in the Musée des beaux-arts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argenteuil_(Manet)

Argenteuil
1874
Oil on canvas
149 x115 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai, Belgium
https://mba.tournai.be/collection/edouard-manet-argenteuil