Environs where Claude Monet painted: "Harbour at Argenteuil".1872. The popular promenade on the riverbank by the side of the 'basin' has been replaced by a busy road. This is where the artist used to sit to paint. Argenteuil has projects to recreate this feature bu sinking the road underground...See image: monet_argenteuil_france022..Sites of Claude Monet's paintings in Argenteuil. The famous impressionist painter who lived in this town on the outskirts of Paris, during the 1870's. His home faces the railway station, and is a ten minute walk from the Seine river, and the town centre. He painted many of his most memorable pictures nearby his house, on the riverbanks, of the railway station, bridges around the town and Argenteuil basin.
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