La Grenouillère (1869)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926)

La Grenouillère
1869
Oil on canvas, 74.6 x 99.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on the Seine River, not far from Paris. Monet noted on September 25, “I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillère, for which I have made some bad sketches, but it is only a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting.” Among their various depictions of the subject, this composition closely resembles one by Renoir in the NationalmuseumStockholm. (MET)

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Monet, Claude (1840-1926)
La Grenouillère
1869
National GalleryLondon

 

 

Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919)
La Grenouillère
1869
NationalmuseumStockholm

 

 

Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919)
La Grenouillère
1869
Oskar Reinhart CollectionWinterthur

 

 

Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919)
La Grenouillère
1869
Pushkin MuseumMoscow