Claude Monet

Claude Monet

Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1872

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

About this painting

Renoir painted his close friend Monet at Argenteuil in 1872, pipe in hand, absorbed in a newspaper — one of six portraits Renoir made of Monet and his family during their years of painting side by side.

Painting Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

61 × 50 cm (24 × 19.7 in)

Painted at

Paris, France

Current location

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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