Environs where Claude Monet painted 'Red poppies at Argenteuil' in 1873. The exact place for this famous picture is unknown, but this is very nearby its location. Housing blocks and residential areas have been built over the poppy fields where the artist and his family used to walk at weekends...See image: monet_argenteuil_france001..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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