Manet Paints Monet: A Summer in Argenteuil

In the summer of 1874, Édouard Manet and Claude Monet spent their holidays together in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil. Art historian Willibald Sauerländer describes how these two very different artists were inspired by one another and how their friendship flourished over those months. David Dollenmayer ’66 *77 is a professor emeritus of German at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.