Publisher's Synopsis
Decorative Notebooks for People who Love Art
MULTIPURPOSE: Blank journal notebook for sketching, jotting down thoughts, doodling, and taking notes
COVER DESIGN: A bold and beautiful reproduction of "Argenteuil" by Édouard Manet (1874).
QUALITY: Non-glossy cover, so fingerprints and light glare won't be a problem. Premium quality paper provides an enjoyable writing experience.
SIZE: 6 x 9 inches - 100 pages - Easy to Carry
About the Cover:
Argenteuil is an 1874 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet (1832-1883), first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1875. It is one of Manet's first works to qualify fully as an Impressionist work, due to its naturalistic subject and its bold palette, such as the blue of the river, mocked by the Figaro journalist Jean Rousseau as "in the foreground, Argenteuil jam on an indigo river". It is now in the Musée des beaux-arts in Tournai, Belgium.
The work shows a man in a boater and a young woman sitting beside the Seine at Argenteuil (now in Val-d'Oise) - the village is in the background. Manet asked Claude Monet and his wife Camille to pose for the painting but they could not hold the pose for long enough. Manet's brother-in-law Rudolf Leenhoff or baron Barbier (a friend of Guy de Maupassant) was probably the model for the man, though the model for the woman is unknown.
