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Monet, Watched

Argenteuil, 1874. Manet spends the summer with Monet, and Monet becomes a subject as well as a painter.

Source: The Met

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1

Monet lived at Argenteuil on the Seine from 1871 and bought a boat to paint from. In 1874 his friend Édouard Manet came to paint the river there too.

Sources: Wikipedia: Claude MonetWikipedia: Argenteuil
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Manet never exhibited with the Impressionists and always returned to what he thought of as the serious work of the studio. At Argenteuil he painted out in the open, among them.

Source: Wikipedia
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The same place

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In 1885 the young American portrait painter John Singer Sargent visited Monet at Giverny, and began to paint outdoors in the Impressionist way himself.

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The same person

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In 1907, at fifty-one, Sargent closed his portrait studio. Painting a portrait, he said, would be quite amusing if one were not forced to talk while working. He went travelling with his paints instead.

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Before and after

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