Claude Monet's Le Basin d'Argenteuil is an impressionistic piece of art painted in 1875. This painting consists of oil on canvas and is approximately 21 ¾" 29 ¼" and is currently at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. The subject of this piece includes sailboats floating serenely on the Seine River in the Argenteuil Basin between a shrub-like foreground and a background of trees creating a horizon …showed first 75 words of 1353 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1353 total…Europe. The light and feeling of space are endless and no mood is present but that of serenity and peace among nature and man. Despite there being no actual presence of a human being in his painting, Monet places man-made objects in one of nature's most breathtaking locations on the Seine River. Monet's quality of expression is harmony in its finest, and no viewer could walk away from this painting feeling anything but exactly that.