Claude Monet peignant dans son atelier flottant

The summer of 1874 was when Impressionism got its name. That April a group show in Paris had drawn a critic's mockery of one Monet canvas, and the label Impressionists stuck. Manet, older and already notorious from his own Salon scandals, never joined their exhibitions. But that same summer he came out to Argenteuil, on the Seine outside Paris, and set up beside Monet. Monet had rigged an old boat into a floating studio so he could paint the river from the water itself. Manet shows him at work in it, brush raised, his wife Camille sitting in the shade of the little cabin behind him.