OIL PAINTING: Misty morning on the Seine , 1892
During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) Monet took refuge in England with Pissarro: he studied the paintings of Constable and Turner, painted the Thames and London parks, and met the dealer Durand-Ruel, who was to become one of the great champions of the Impressionists. From 1871 to 1878 Monet lived at Argenteuil, a village on the Seine near Paris, and here were painted some of the most joyous and famous oil paintings of the
Impressionist movement, not only by Monet, but by his visitors Manet,
Renoir and Sisley.