Claude Monet Sailboats on the Seine at Petit-Gennevilliers, 1874 In the latter part of the nineteenth century, Claude Monet was one of a daring group of French painters who turned away from academic tradition and developed a fresh, spontaneous style devoted to the pursuit of light and its fleeting effects on sky, water, and land. Painted in 1874, the year of the group's first exhibition in Paris. Monet's Sailboats on the Seine at Petit-Gennevilliers reflects the emergence of the artist's mature style. WARNING: Choking hazard - small parts. Not suitable for children under 3 years.