| The Seine at Asnières | |
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| Artist | Claude Monet |
| Year | 1873 |
| Catalogue | W.269 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 46.4 cm × 55.5 cm (18.3 in × 21.9 in) |
| Location | Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg |
The Seine at Asnières is an 1873 oil on canvas painting byClaude Monet, now in theHermitage Museum in St Petersburg.[1][2] It was previously in the collection of Alice Meyer (née Sieveking; 1866–1949), widow of the extremely rich Hamburg businessman Eduard Lorenz Lorenz-Meyer (1856–1926) before being looted by the USSR afterWorld War II and retained as war reparations.[1] It has been on public display since an exhibition in 1995.[3][4]
Painted a few months after producingImpression, Sunrise, it shows a late afternoon scene withpéniches moored atAsnières on theSeine to the north-west of Paris. The small town had recently been linked by rail to Paris viagare Saint-Lazare and was starting to industrialise, with a population of workers and lower-middle-class inhabitants building themselves houses ingritstone or brick, some of which are shown with tree gardens on the opposite bank in the painting. Living atArgenteuil, another town on the Seine slightly to the north, Monet came to paint the subject with his friends.
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