Bridge at Argenteuil on a Gray Day
Claude Monet
c. 1876
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 61 x 80.3 cm (24 x 31 5/8 in.) framed: 82.9 x 102.6 x 8.9 cm (32 5/8 x 40 3/8 x 3 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Accession Number
1970.17.44
About the Artist
Claude Monet · 1840–1926
Claude Monet, born Oscar-Claude Monet on November 14, 1840, in Paris and raised in Le Havre, Normandy, began his artistic journey as a successful teenage caricaturist. His formal training started at the Le Havre secondary school of the arts in 1851, where he received his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard. Around 1858, he met Eugène Boudin, who became his pivotal mentor, introducin...